Adaptation of David Kolb's inventory of learning styles in Peruvian students

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Cognitive, Teaching - Learning, Learning Styles

Abstract

The David Kolb Learning Styles Inventory was adapted for a population of 699 students, 382 men and 317 women in the 1st and 2nd years of secondary school in the military promoters of Metropolitan Lima. It is assumed as a theoretical basis that Kolb's learning styles refer to the way each person approaches learning in a peculiar way; fruit of inheritance, previous experiences and current demands of the environment in which it operates. Obtaining evidence of content validitythrough the Judges Criterion, using the Aiken reliability index V; For the Internal Consistency the Cronbach's Alpha Coefficient was used, obtaining a score of 0.99 and establishing the Percentiles by Areas EC - OR - CA - EA and by Dimensions CA - EC (x) and EO - OR (y), determining the categories based on the established coordinates, whose ranges are x = -21 to 11 and = -17 to 14.

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Published

2019-12-30

How to Cite

Barboza Zelada, L. A., & Quistgaard Álvarez, J. A. (2019). Adaptation of David Kolb’s inventory of learning styles in Peruvian students. PsiqueMag, 8(2), 12–24. Retrieved from https://revistas.ucv.edu.pe/index.php/psiquemag/article/view/194

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Research Articles