Estrategias de elaboración en alumnos universitarios

Resum

This university lecture examines the differential use made by university students about the learning strategies of elaboration in terms of their attending academic specialty, course and gender. The use of learning strategies is a first order differential factor with regard to academic achievement in the field of university students. It is important to know what strategies the students use according to their specialty of study to know if there is a preferential use of learning strategies conditioned by the university specialty. Other leading indicators may be the course and gender.Escuchar The sample consisted of 544 students (40% male, 60% women) who are studying experimental sciences, technical education and social and legal sciences. The average age is 22.5 years and they are enrolled in intermediate or end courses of their university careers. The results show that, in general, students show an average level of use elaboration strategies of and that there are significant differences depending on the specialty. The strategies that are making less use of are elaboration metaphors, realization of written works and notes expanded. The most frequent activities are elaboration paraphrases, use of problem solving for learning and making self questioning, applications and elaboration of relations. We also analyze the differences by gender and course