Learning styles and teaching strategies in chemical engineering: an study
International Journal of Development Research
Learning styles and teaching strategies in chemical engineering: an study
Received 18th August, 2018; Received in revised form 21st September, 2018; Accepted 24th October, 2018; Published online 30th November, 2018.
Copyright © 2018, Aldair Oliveira de Andrade et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Several studies on educational psychology have shown that factors such as personality, life history, culture, motivation, and environmental factors may affect perception of reality, influencing the learning processes. The process of absorbing information is a complex activity related to individual and social aspects. Given that the traditional teaching method is no longer considered adequate to the professional formation of engineering students with the profile required by the labor market, the present study determined the learning styles of chemical engineering students in a brazilian public university, based on the Felder and Silverman model (Felder and Silverman, 1988), associating it with students’ socioeconomic and cultural profile, aiming at identifying more appropriate teaching strategies.
