Estilos de aprendizagem de Kolb e objetos de aprendizagem: um estudo de caso no Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais campus São João Evangelista.

Abstract

The objective of this study is to identify the learning styles of students of intermediate level technical level and to correlate their style with learning objects. By learning styles is meant the different ways people can perceive and process information. The research was carried out with students of the technical courses in Informatics, Agropecuaria and Nutrition of the Federal Institute of Minas Gerais in the São João Evangelista campus, to which the Kolb Learning Styles Inventory (ILS) of learning developed by the same and allows access to a good structure to identify the preferences of the learner. In a second moment, the questionnaire on learning objects was applied so that it could later correlate the learning styles of Kolb with the learning objects according to the preference of each student. After conducting the studies, it was verified that in general the predominant learning style among the students of the Federal Institute of Minas Gerais Campus São João Evangelista is the convergent with a total representation of 44% of the population studied. Finally, it was observed that among the 4 learning styles the learning strategies that stood out were practical experience and activities in the laboratory.