Métodos de ensino e os estilos de aprendizagem dos discentes

Abstract

The aim of this study was to identify the teaching methods and how they are related to the Accounting Sciences program students' learning styles. The research starts from a supposition that the link between teaching methods and learning styles can favor the teaching and learning process. Initially, literature review was done on the concepts of teaching and learning methods. Because of the quali-quantitative nature of the study, data collection on teaching method usage frequency was conducted by a survey using Likert scale applied to the professors of the subjects: Basic Accounting I, Basic Accounting II, Cost Accounting, Financial Statements Structure and Computerized Accounting. The data collected were correlated with the research already done on the Accounting Sciences program students' learning styles, based on David Kolb's learning style inventory. From the results obtained, it was possible to identify that the less used teaching method by the professors involved in the research is the experimental teaching, and the most used are the conceptual teaching, Factual teaching and procedural teaching. By correlating teaching methods to learning styles, it was identified that the less used teaching method - experimental - is related to the less common learning styles - diverging and accommodating. And the most used teaching methods - conceptual, factual and procedural - are related to the most common learning styles - assimilating and converging.