Styles and Strategies of Learning in Management Business undergraduate students: Comparative Study

• Grant number: 17/20519-1
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: March 01, 2018
• End date: February 29, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Administration
• Principal Investigator: Adriana Backx Noronha Viana
• Grantee: Adriana Backx Noronha Viana
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Crisomar Lobo de Souza ; Daielly Melina Nassif Mantovani ; Edson Carlos Germano ; Luciano Antonio Prates Junqueira ; Luísa Margarida Cagica Carvalho ; Luiz Roberto Alves ; Paulo Roberto de Oliveira ; Pedro Javier Aguerre Hughes ; Roberto Sanches Padula
• Associated research grant(s): 18/15156-0 - Comparative study of graduate business students learning strategies, self-regulation process and active learning methods in Australia and Brazil, AP.R SPRINT
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/18382-3 - Learning styles and learning strategies: database organization and descriptive analysis, BP.TT

Abstract

This research aims to identify learning styles and learning strategies used by university students in undergraduate degree in business administration and understand the relationship between them, allowing provide an effective teaching-learning process. The development of the research is divided into five major steps: construction (or adaptation) tool for analysis of learning strategies, study the psychometric characteristics of the instrument used, description of learning strategies, survey and description of learning styles, analysis of the relationship between learning styles and strategies. To be able to study the relationship between styles and learning strategies, both instruments will be used together in the same sample. This study seeks to contribute to improvements in undergraduate business management courses, identifying the styles and strategies used by students in their learning process, which provides grants to the planning of courses, it is possible to strengthen strategies already used and encourage new strategies still incipient (AU)