Estilos de aprendizagem e jogos de empresa: a percepção discente sobre estratégia de ensino e ambiente de aprendizagem

Abstract

Learning styles show the individual's behavior and their ability to perceive and process information. The use of business simulation games as a teaching strategy and learning environment, promotes the active participation of students in teaching and learning process and thus there is a challenge to identify how they learn and answer what are stimulated. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between learning styles and perceptions of students in the application of business simulation games as a teaching strategy and learning environment. Students’ perceptions on teaching strategy and learning environment were collected through the instrument of the skills acquisition and the quality of the virtual environment. The analysis was performed using descriptive statistics techniques, factor analysis and analysis of variance (ANOVA). The main results, learning styles differ significantly as a teaching strategy in the processing and input dimensions. In the processing dimension, significant differences were presented in the factor related to problem solving, while the input dimension were the factor on managerial behavior. Regarding the quality of the virtual environment, learning styles were not significant for the perception dimensions and showed significant differences in the processing dimension for the perceived usefulness, the input dimension to the quality of information and the organization dimension for ease of use.