Work on Physics Higher Education published

Research at Universities are always accompanied with teaching in Higher Education. And if the scientific method is a way of living, it should be translated to other areas of a researcher's life other than the science produced in the lab. This publication is a consequence of applying scientific methods to teaching. In this work, we tested the learning styles model of learning proposed by Felder & Silverman in the 1980's & 1990's. According to this model, students have different dimensions of learning, and each dimension ranges from one specific way of learning to another extreme way of learning. Educators have argued that teachers should teach according to students' preferred way of learning.

In this work, conducted by Ricardo Caceffo when he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Computing at the University of Campinas, we developed an automatized way of finding students' learning style, as originally proposed by Felder & Silverman, and tested it in students during a General Physics course. The results show that there is no correlation between the students' learning style and its efficacy in learning.

To read the full text visit: http://www.eu-journal.org/index.php/EJPE/article/view/227