Learning styles in distance education: a case study in the undergraduate program of Public Administration of UFF

Learning styles are related to how people integrate learning conditions, including cognitive, emotional, physical and environmental aspects that may favor the processing of information both in the search for alternatives to facilitate initiation of the learning process it self, and to unravel it of educational practices mechanisms that produce success or called academic failure. Sought to identify whether the learning styles impact on academic performance in the evaluation activities in distance education. Developed a descriptive exploratory study based on the literature, the work can be classified as a Case Study. The results verified the existence of five styles among respondents: 4 styles determined by Honey-Alonso (Active Reflective Theoretical and pragmatic) and multiple style; the prevalence of reflective style in 60.5% of the sample; and the Chi-square test, which presented the results of the 0.43 level of significance, which shows there is no relationship between learning style and academic performance. Thus, given the proposed general objective, the survey results indicated that there is no relationship between learning style and academic performance, or at least the sample studied does not allow you reach another conclusion.