Abstract

CAMANA FIALLOS, Roberto Gabino  and  TORRES CARRERA, Rolando Amilcar. Discovery of the dominant learning style of students in the career of Technology. Educación [online]. 2018, vol.42, n.2, pp.306-317. ISSN 2215-2644.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/revedu.v42i2.26473.

The objective of this research was to discover the dominant learning styles in students enrolled in the first to the fourth level of the Technology in Systems Analysis major, academic semester October 2015 - March 2016, with the purpose of improving the teaching process. To carry out this study, the following processes were considered: elaboration of the state of the art related to learning styles to know the different methodologies and results. The model used is the one proposed by Felder-Silverman, because this instrument is based on quality, reliability and validity in order to discover the dominant learning style. For this study,process analysis was applied with its stages: selection of a statistical software, exploration and analysis of data and preparation of results with the objective of identifying homogeneous groups out of a group of surveyed students using the descriptive technique through cluster analysis.Weka free and open source software was used because it allows to implement a variety of algorithms. The dominant learning style of the students of the Technology Systems Analysis major was: Visual (VIS) - Intuitive (INT) - Active (ACT) - Sequential (SEQ) .

Keywords : Academic staff; clustering analysis; learning styles; student.

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