Modalidades de aprendizaje del alumnado del Máster de Formación del Profesorado de Educación Secundaria de la Universidad Católica de Valencia

Abstract

This research is developed in a Faculty of Education Sciences where future teachers are being trained. The aim is to analyze the different students’ learning modalities belonging to the Master for Teachers’ Training of the Catholic University of Valencia and the differences among specialities. We have used the VARK Questionnaire that classifies students into their learning styles: visual, aural, read/write and kinesthetic. This questionnaire was applied to a sample of 262 students. Majority of students (71.4%) are multimodal and they prefer AK (aural-kinesthetic), ARK (aural-read-write-kinesthetic) and VARK (vidual-aural-read-write-kinesthetic) styles. The higher score respecting to V, A, R, and K proportions is aural modality (32.2%). Significant statistically differences for gender were found in the read/write learning style. No difference has been found related to the students’ speciality. It may be because of a traditional teaching style (master class and passive and rote learning). These results were compared with other researches and some discrepancies were found.