Abstract

AVILA ANGULO, Elizabeth. Learning Styles in the Master ofHigher Education ofthe Faculty of Humanities - University Autonomous Gabriel René Moreno. Rev. Cient. Mult. Adas [online]. 2015, vol.6, n.4, pp. 117-123. ISSN 2309-3153.

Several authors have addressed the issue of learning styles, allowing properly explain the issue, as well as providing respect to the processes of teaching and learning in order to improve the development of metacognitive processes to generate significant learning, skills and abilities in response the demand for vocational training and the workplace. The identification of learning styles as part of the diagnosis, should be understood as a starting point for the application of cognitive and metacognitive strategies also reflect on the development of such styles as a feature of personality, and in turn an element changing and dynamic which should evolve over time, which is why the teacher and the learner must know the characteristics of their learning styles as it becomes a useful tool in the learning process. The analysis in this study is focused on the variables age, learning styles and gender in order to characterize and determine its impact on the training process and hence on academic performance. From the results of the research, it can create spaces for reflection on teaching practice, in order to influence the educational act and encourage the development and care of the various learning styles, as well as improving the performance indices.

Keywords : Learning styles; cognitive strategies; metacognitive strategies; teaching practice; educational activity; educational process..