Un estudio metacognitivo acerca de los estilos de aprendizaje de estudiantes de psicopedagogía de diferentes ciclos de la formacion acádemica

This study has a double goal: to compare learning styles Argentinean students of psychopedagogy at the beginning and end of their university training and to investigate their meta-knowledge about them as learner, the tasks used and their own learning styles. A mixed retrospective ex post facto cross-group comparison study was conducted. Quantitative and qualitative techniques were complemented. The Index of Learning Styles® (Felder & Soloman, 1996) adapted by Rodriguez Suarez (2002) was applied. In a workshop, these quantitative report was analyzed, interpreted and revised by the own students. Students shared preferences for sensory, active and visual learning styles; however, changes from sequential preferences in the 1st year to global preferences in the 5th year were observed. Educational implications are discussed about their meta-knowledge.