Learning Styles and Individuals Differences in High School Students

a case of a Brazilian National Institute.

Authors

  • Cicero Eduardo Walter Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Piauí (Campus Oeiras) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5783-6613
  • Paulo Jordão Fortes Universidade Federal do Piauí (Brasil)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55777/rea.v13i26.1534

Keywords:

Learning Styles, Brasil, IFPI

Abstract

The present research aimed to identify how Learning Styles relate to distinctive characteristics of high school students, with the ultimate purpose of providing greater familiarization with the theme for the development of theoretical proposals for future research in the area. The study was conducted with a sample of 132 students from IFPI-Campus Oeiras. The data collection instrument used was a questionnaire called the Index of Learning Styles-ILS. For the treatment, analysis, and interpretation of the data, SPSS Statistics software in version 24 and Numbers in version 5.0 was used. The statistical techniques used were descriptive, exploratory and inferential in nature, to describe, analyze and interpret the behavior of the attributes under study. The results indicate that the preferred learning style is Active/Sensory/Verbal/Sequential, that the means/distributions of the dimensions of Capture, Perception and Understanding of the information are different in the sample of the present investigation and that the control variable Sex can be a key variable to explain the differences in capturing and understanding student information, based on neuroanatomical differences between men and women.

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Author Biography

Cicero Eduardo Walter, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Piauí (Campus Oeiras)

Professor of Business Administration in Basic, Technical and Technological Education (EBTT) of the Management and Business Branch of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piauí (Campus Oeiras), on an exclusive basis. PhD (In progress) in Economic and Business Sciences from the University of Aveiro (Portugal). Master and Specialist in Management (Management of Organizations - Business Management Branch) by the School of Technology and Management from Polytechnic Institute of Bragança - ESTIG-IPB - (Portugal), recognized by the Federal University of Ceará and, Bachelor in Business Administration by the Federal University of Piauí - UFPI - (Brazil), with international mobility in Economics by the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra - FEUC - (Portugal), as a Scholarship of Banco Santander do Brasil S/A. Director of Companies registered in the Regional Board of Directors of Piauí (CRA-PI nº 3819).

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Published

2020-10-06

How to Cite

Walter, C. E., & Jordão Fortes, P. (2020). Learning Styles and Individuals Differences in High School Students: a case of a Brazilian National Institute. Journal of Learning Styles, 13(26), 131–142. https://doi.org/10.55777/rea.v13i26.1534