Estrategias de aprendizaje y rendimiento académico en estudiantes universitarios

Abstract

The main objective of this work it is to analyze the incidence of learning strategies in the academic achievement of the university students. In order to get it we developed the LSUSQ Questionnaire (Learning Strategies of University Students Questionnaire) that we validated with a representative sample of students of the two public universities of the city of Valencia in Spain (545 students): the University of Valencia and the Polytechnic University of Valencia. We carried out correlations and multiple regression analysis that reflect the relationship between learning strategies and academic achievement and we also carried out hierarchical eluster analysis, finding four groups of students with diverse strategic use profile: one of them good, and the three other ones, poor. Later, existing differences in grades were examined (ANOVA plus post hoc) between established groups depending on their strategic profile, where significant differences were found benefiting the group with positive strategic profile.