Learning styles, a correlational study in engineering students

The investigation was originated in the proposal of the Master of Teaching in the Macro Project on Teaching Styles, Learning, Cognitive, and particularly in the line of Learning Styles, which are involved authors such as Kolb, Grasha-Riechmann and Alonso-Gallego-Honey. The diversity of instruments in the Learning Styles in a certain way has prevented the educational approach based on theories of learning styles take stronger teaching, has also made it lose validity in the eyes of the educational community, making it more difficult and less implement relevant educational processes based on learning styles. Making a historical in the evolution of Learning Styles, we see that some studies have compiled the various approaches to learning styles depending on the item to stress, psychological, cognitive, and so on. But little is known about studies that been devoted to relate the models proposed categorizations Learning Styles. Based on the foregoing, the study of the possible relationship between the categories proposed by Grasha - Riechmann (1976), Kolb (1974) and Alonso, Gallego and Honey (1991) was the primary purpose of this project and for this purpose test applied to the respective classification proposed by the same authors to sixty-three (63) students in engineering, then this information is analyzed to look for possible correlations between the ratings result of applying the three tests on students. The analysis of the project is implemented through the correlation, which is a statistical process that results in the index of relationship between two or more variables and allows us to see if the process is somehow a characteristic equation is linear or no. Here the correlation is used to relate the categories of learning styles and determine its value, then graphing the result and then get the equation that characterizes the process of Learning Styles relationship.