Assessment of learning styles between nursing and psychology majors

Abstract

Learning involves a process in which each student, throughout their academic training, builds and strengthens different methods and strategies to transform the information obtained, which becomes pure knowledge through different learning styles. The objective of this work was to identify the learning styles presented by university students of the nursing and psychology bachelor's degree programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexicali campus. The Isauro Blanco's Skillful learning studies test and Habilmind equipment were used for data collection. It was applied to 77 students, of which 32% were male and 68% female. Forty-eight percent corresponded to nursing students and 52% to psychology students. The study is of a descriptive-transversal type, the measurement of the variables was carried out in a single time. As an outstanding result, there is a similarity between the results of both degrees, highlighting the area of tolerance to effort and frustration. The conclusions highlight that learning styles provide tools to potentiate the way in which learning takes place, and for this reason it is extremely important to identify them in a group so that the teacher can plan his activities in the classroom and obtain significant learning.