Estratégias pedagógicas com base nos estilos de aprendizagem VARK na plataforma BeActive

Abstract

This master's dissertation was developed in the Postgraduate Program in Education (Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação - PPGE) at the Universidade do Oeste Paulista (Unoeste) in Research Line 01: Public Policies in Education, training processes and diversity, on the strategic theme “Data Science applied to Learning Management”. This is a multidisciplinary research project that links training processes in education with the computer science field. Educational or pedagogical strategies are a set of actions and activities under the responsibility of the teacher, developed from clear objectives established in their planning. The “Be Active” Educational Platform allows teaching and learning to be managed through the application of learning style diagnostics and active methodologies. Learning styles are, in general terms, the ways in which human beings interact with their objects of knowledge. The following questions guided the research: how can we structure suggestions for pedagogical strategies that can be reported to the teaching user in the light of the results obtained in the application of VARK-type learning style diagnostics on the Be Active Educational Platform? How can data generated in “Be Active” regarding learning style diagnostics be analyzed and correlated with the results of a given active methodology in order to model the teacher's decision making regarding the use of pedagogical strategies? The objectives were: to develop a proposal for implementing suggestions for pedagogical strategies for the teaching user based on the results of the application of VARK-type learning style diagnostics and to analyze the student user data generated in Be Active in terms of performance in an active methodology, correlating it with the results of the VARK diagnosis. The research approach is mixed and data collection, selection and analysis were carried out in two phases: Phase 1) Data collection through bibliographic research and literature review on the following topics: pedagogical strategies, learning styles and active methodologies and the development of suggestions for pedagogical strategies for each VARK learning style based on the literature and the scope for implementing these suggestions for the teaching user in Cards format. Phase 2) Identification, extraction and documentation of data from users of the “Be Active” platform in reports on the application of VARK diagnostics and performance in the active Problem Based Learning (PBL) methodology, with authorization from the Research Ethics Committee and respecting the principles of the General Data Protection Law (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados - LGPD). As a result, we present suggestions for Cards for pedagogical strategies based on the results of VARK diagnostics and an analysis of data that correlates participants' performance in the PBL methodology with possible inferences about their learning styles. Recommendations are made for the implementation of models for analyzing the data generated in the performance results of the PBL methodology in relation to the learning diagnostics on the Be Active Platform for the management of teaching and learning and consequently for the improvement of decision-making on pedagogical strategies by the teacher.