Metodologias de ensino e os estilos de aprendizagem na graduação em farmácia: um estudo piloto

Abstract

The present study aims to identify the learning styles and preferences of Pharmacy undergraduate students at the Federal University of Sergipe who were submitted to the active and traditional methodologies, as well as to evaluate the applicability of the Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire (ILS). Descriptive, exploratory cross-sectional study with 38 students performed in June 2015. The ILS has 44 questions with four dimensions that represents the stages of learning: Perception (sensory or intuitive); Input (visual or verbal); Processing (active or reflective); Understanding (sequential or global). The present study showed that there was no significant difference between the learning styles of students submitted to different teaching methodologies; in general, there was a predominance of sensory perception 30 (78.9%), visual input 25 (65.7%), active processing 23 (60.5%) and sequential understanding 28 (73.7%). The application time, extension and clarity of the items were used as evaluation criteria when regarding the applicability of the questionnaire. In the meantime, 23 (60%) of the students indicated that the ILS was extensive, which also had an impact in the response time (mean 35 minutes). However, it was considered understandable by 100% of the participants.