Patterns of Motivational Orientation and its Relationship with Academic Performance in University Students

Abstract

This research aims to identify the learning strategies employed by university students; and represent them through graphic techniques of multivariate analysis. The sample consisted of 30 students from the Multidisciplinary Academic Division of the Rivers; of the degrees in Administration and Administrative Computing of the generational cohorts 2010, 2011 and 2012. The instrument used is the Inventory of Strategies of Learning and Motivational Orientation (EDAOM) this instrument consists of a self-assessment that the student makes on the learning strategies that employs. For the implementation of the visual techniques was used the Language R, with these techniques were represented individually to the students with their respective learning strategies. The results show the interaction of the students with the learning strategies and the academic performance, visualization that the students of the Degree in Administrative Computing obtain the lowest values in the strategies of performance and academic performance.