Enfoques de aprendizaje y dominancias cerebrales entre estudiantes universitarios

Resumen The fact that very few investigations have treated to study the possible relationship betwe- en approaches to learning and learning styles and, furthermore, the fact that practically nei- ther of them has been proposed to study the relationship that there would be between appro- aches to learning and brain dominances was what motivated the accomplishment of the pre- sent study in a university context. The aim of this study was the identification of approaches to learning and cerebral dominances in predegree students at Austral University of Chile and to prove their incidence in academic performance. The Questionnaire on Approaches to Learning and Studying of Entwistle (1993) and the Human Information Processing Survey of Torrance, Taggart and Taggart (1984) were administered to a sample of 209 students. Results: The most adopted approach among students is the strategic one, followed by the deep and finally the surface approach. Among the study areas certain tendency was dete...