Background:

knowledge on students´ learning styles allows having a positive impact on their academic performance.

Objective:

to characterize the learning styles of the third year students of the Medicine degree of Holguín University of Medical Sciences.

Methods:

a descriptive investigation was carried out within the quantitative-qualitative approach. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis and historical-logical, empirical ones: Honey-Alonso questionnaire to determine the learning styles of the students, and mathematical-statistics: the score was calculated for the four styles, the mean and its standard deviation, and the neural networks were formed from the answers.

Results:

the learning styles of the students were manifested with very similar average values, except the reflective one that was characterized by high percentages of response in items that refer to prudence. The centrality of the data is present in the four styles, with greater incidence in the reflective with only two peripheral items, and three nuclei whose approaches are closely related.

Conclusions:

the reflective style predominated in the studied sample, with a tendency to change according to the intellectual maturity that students achieve during the course of their studies.

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