RT Journal Article
T1 Variability of Higher Education Students’ Learning Styles Depending on Gender, Course, Degree and Institutional Context
A1 Alonso Martín, Pilar
A1 Cruz Díaz, María Rocío
A1 Granado Alcón, María Carmen
A1 Lago Urbano, Rocío
A1 Martínez García, Concepción
AB In higher education it is important to consider learning styles of students to facilitatethe teaching–learning process. The aims guiding the research were to describe the learning stylespredominating among students in the field of the social sciences, to analyse the results with respectto gender, year of study, degree course and institution, and to perform correlation analysis betweenthese variables. The data analyses were carried out with non-parametric statistics with a confidencelevel of 95%. The sample was composed of 636 students at the Universities of Huelva (UHU),Cádiz (UCA), and Pablo de Olavide of Seville (UPO), who completed the Honey–Alonso LearningStyles Questionnaire and reported sociodemographic and educational data. The results showed asignificant preference for the Reflector style. Significant correlations were found in most variableshighlighting that the courses showed an inverse correlation with the learning styles, the Activist,Theorist, and Pragmatist styles being less preferred as they progressed in the career. It is worthnoting the significant direct correlation between Reflector, Theorist, and Pragmatist styles, but theActivist style inversely correlates with all three. As a complementary contribution, a proposal forintervention in classrooms with a sustainable perspective is offered. It is important to attend to theevolution in the preference of the learning styles that students acquire as they advance in highereducation courses in order to facilitate a more optimal and sustainable teaching–learning process.
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2021
FD 2021-02
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19789
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19789
LA eng
NO Alonso Martín, P., Cruz Díaz, R., Granado Alcón, C., Lago Urbano, R., & Martínez García, C. (2021). Variability of Higher Education Students’ Learning Styles Depending on Gender, Course, Degree and Institutional Context. Sustainability, 13(4), 1659. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13041659
NO This research was reviewed by Pro-Vice-Chancellor’s for Innovation and Research at theUniversity of Huelva assessed the project specially methodology for data collection and participantsinvolved, turning out to be approved by this institution at XIX Edition Announcement, Universityof Huelva.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 1 jun 2026