Percepción de estrategias y estilos de aprendizaje en estudiantes universitarios de primer año.

This research was aimed at identifying learning styles and strategies most used by freshmen (N=147), and examining the relation between learning strategies and their sex, age, and origin. It is also examined whether styles are connected or not with intentional action taken by freshmen to learn. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to analyze the differences among group means in the sample. Student's t-test was also used. The results show that metacognition and self-regulation are the most used strategies, and that female freshmen usually draw diagrams and write summaries as learning aids. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]