Identificación de estrategias de aprendizaje de estudiantes de ingeniería de alimentos en los cursos balance de materia, transporte de fluidos y operaciones unitarias

Abstract

The aim of this work was to identify learning strategies of students in the subjects of material balance, fluid transport, and unit operations of the food engineering program at the University of Cartagena. The sample consisted of 130 students, 46% men of average age 20.3 years and 54% women of average age 21.9 years. ACRA questionnaire that includes the scales Acquisition, Encoding, Retrieval and Support was applied. Analysis of variance was performed and a correlation between the scales using Pearson's test. The general preference was oriented to the coding and support scales, being women the ones who had higher averages in those scales, for the three subjects. Between men and women there were statistically significant differences in each of the analyzed scales (p<0.05), concluding that gender influences the choice of the learning strategies.