Architecture students’ Learning styles: an exploratory study for building a virtual environment
Abstract
This study explores students’ learning styles for the design of didactic strategies and instructional materials. Following a quantitative and exploratory approach, we used an intentional sample of 110 students from Projects III of the architecture degree, semester 2019-3. Felder Soloman’s Learning Styles Index was applied and Cronbach's alpha reliability was 0,82 (very high correlation). The results showed students' learning styles: 1) Type of information to be perceived, Sensory (63%), Intuitive (37%); 2) Sensory channel to capture the information, Visual (97%) Verbal (3%); 3) information process preference, Active (71%) Reflective (29%); and 4) progress toward understanding of contents Sequential (66%) Global (34%). Based on the findings obtained, the construction of the virtual classroom reflected Sensitive/Intuitive, Visual, Active, and Sequential/Global styles, and encouraged Verbal and Reflective styles, through: task-focused teaching, problem-based learning methodology, and abstraction. The instructional means were constituted by: multimedia animation, WebQuest-based Learning Objects, and instructional resources. Classroom adequacy, instructional design, methodology and means in correspondence with preferences for studying and learning, enable students to achieve educational goals; hence the importance of exploring learning styles as a pre-planning stage before the design and implementation of a virtual classroom aimed at training in project skills.
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