Estilos de aprendizaje como elemento base del proceso enseñanza aprendizaje en los estudiantes de séptimo, octavo y noveno ciclo de Medicina de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja

Abstract

Abstract: Learning styles are a crucial element in the teaching-learning process. Therefore, it is essential to know them so that learning develops effectively. The presentresearchis carried out with the objective of determining the learning styles in the seventh, eighth and ninth cycle students of the Medicine career at the Technical University of Loja. For this, an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional and quantitative approach study was carried out study was carried out using the Kolb learning styles test. The outcomesobtained show that the style that prevailed in this group of students was the assimilator with a marked difference with respect to the other three styles, the second place is occupied by the divergent style, followed by the convergent style and finally the accommodating style. The predominant learning stage was abstract conceptualization. And as for the result of predominance in relation to gender, in both menand women the predominant style is the assimilator, although in women the difference with respect to the other styles was more marked.