Learning Approach Questionnaire; deep leaning approach; superficial learning approach; social and demographic variables

Abstract

The learning approach characterization, that was carried out with the Learning Approach Questionnaire (LAQ) reported in chemistry students from tenth grade at Soacha, Cundinamarca I Colombia. The associations that can be presented between this approach and some social and demographic variables such as gender, stratum, school hours, kind of institution and some others.

The conclusions that emerged show that tenth grade students form Soacha have superficial learning approach in chemistry, females have a bigger tendency to the deep leaning approach and superficial is bigger among the male; the lack of meaningful correlations between the learning approaches an the stratum; the appearance of the deep learning approach in the continuous study day and the night studying day and superficial at the morning and afternoon studying day.