Estilos de aprendizagem e performance acadêmica: Um estudo com discentes da graduação em Ciências Contábeis

Abstract

Knowing that university courses must be managed with a high level of efficiency, this research is about Learning Styles and Academic Performance in the Accounting course at the Federal University of Paraíba, in order to ascertain the main characteristics related to learning styles and their impacts on academic performance. In terms of methodology, this study is quantitative and descriptive, with the application of a questionnaire and documentary research. David Kolb's inventory of learning styles was used as a data collection instrument. In view of this, it is verified that small oscillations between the averages of academic performance in the periods of the course of accounting sciences. It was also identified that the predominant learning styles among students are assimilator and convergent. Finally, it was found that learning styles do not influence the academic performance obtained by students.