Application of the learning styles in team formation: a study of case / Aplicação dos estilos de aprendizagem na formação de equipes: um estudo de caso

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

This assignment has as main aim to remark and analyse what is the influence of the learning styles, in other words, the different preferences by noticing and processing the information, in the high-performance teams formation (all the integrated members of the team are committed to the other´s learning, aiming to reach high levels of performance in a subject or proposed activity). With the sense of reaching the proposed aim Felder and Soloman (1988)´s inventories were put into practice and the Keirsey and Bates (1984)´s in a sample of 53 students from the first and fifth grades students of the mechanical production engineering course, from USP- Sao Carlos. From the collected data analysis on, there was an attempt to draw up a profile of the learning styles (dominant) of these students and to correlate them with the usage of the team work in three different formations (randomly, homogeneous and heterogeneous) with educational strategy aiming improvements on teaching/learning, according to the rules established by the theory. Besides, a wide bibliographical review was carried out which included studies about the learning styles and the team work techniques, their benefits and difficulties. So, it was possible to observe and analyze the influences of the knowledge of the learning styles in the teams formation using as a parameter the students´performance on the subject approaches to the problems identification in mechanical production engineering. The research is characterized as exploratory and descriptive, by doing situation descriptions, aiming to find out the existing relations (influences) among the component members of it, and by exploring the previously quoted matter. For the theoretical-empirical research, some questions were put into practice in the data collection, where there was an attempt to check the participants perception in relation to the teams formation and roles delegation. Considering these results it was possible to do the analysis and correlation among the researched variables. As a general rule, it was noticed in the results that, the knowledge of the learning styles eased the teams formation once the self- knowledge given by tests allowed bigger difficulties comprehension of some teams and a consequent pupil and docent intervention aiming a wider use and higher performance in the respective subject.

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aprendizagem cooperativa ensino de engenharia team work engineering education cooperative education trabalho em equipe learning styles estilos de aprendizagem

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