Estilos de aprendizaje en estudiantes de primer semestre de los programas de pregrado de una corporación universitaria de la ciudad de Cartagena de Indias

Abstract

For the students to know their own learning style, it will generate a more hopeful horizon, since they will identify the resources and strategies that allow a better appropriation of the knowledge that they will acquire, especially in the initial semesters of their undergraduate careers. With this study of identification of the learning styles of the first semester students of the undergraduate programs of a University Corporation of the city of Cartagena de Indias, it will be possible to attend the plurality of needs, aptitudes, interests, rhythms of development and limitations in the student's learning, and offer a training that adjusts to the reality of the new students. Objective: To characterize the student population of the first semester of the undergraduate programs of a University Corporation of the City of Cartagena in relation to their learning styles in order to resignify the pedagogical practice of the teachers of the institution based on the results. Materials and methods: This research proposal will be carried out through a descriptive study, and will be conducted within the guidelines of the quantitative approach, which will have the opportunity to collect the relevant information, through an online test, which contains a stipulated number of selection questions, which allows to identify the learning styles of the first semester students of a University Corporation of the second academic period of 2016. Results: The results obtained in the characterization made in a University Corporation to the students of I semester of the first academic period of 2016 whose results at the institutional level indicate that 35% of the students have a visual learning style, 33% have an auditory learning style and 32% have the kinesthetic learning style, this reality allows us to generate a series of didactic, technological strategies and Innovative in terms of the rethinking of work plans that privileges the work in the classroom based on these results and for the materialization of this proposal should be thought of the fact that educational practices, based on learning styles, will bring as a consequence Significant changes in teaching methods that have an impact on learning. Conclusion: The growing need to know the way of learning of each person has led to increasingly propose to characterize the population of different educational institutions without leaving aside the HEIs that are gradually entering the field of the styles of learning reflected in university teaching, thus achieving to contribute to the integral development of the person which allows improving the acquisition of knowledge, the development of skills and strategies by students, positively impacting the classroom environment and reinforcing the interpersonal relationships in the educational community.