期刊名称：Educade: Revista de Educación en Contabilidad, Finanzas y Administración de Empresas
电子版ISSN：2173-478X
出版年度：2011
卷号：2
页码：145-156
出版社：AECA
摘要：Background - University education in Spain is facing a major change in order toconverge with the rest of Europe.Among the challenges the new pedagogy is based upon threeprinciples: (I) increased autonomy and involvement of students in their own learning process, (II)active teaching methods and (III) role of the teaching staff as a manager of stimulating learningenvironments.This new pedagogy added to the development of certain soft skills, demands fromstudents certain personal characteristics.Aims - The present paper compares the learning styles of Spanish university accounting studentswith colleagues in other social sciences degrees as well as the influence of several personalfactors.Instrument and Sample - The instrument used is the Grasha-Reichmann Student Learning StyleScale, and the sample is composed by 619 students enrolled in different degrees at the Universityof Huelva.Results - Results indicate that accounting students present differences in learning styles incomparison with other social sciences students.Other differences were found associated withgender and age.
