Learning Styles and Academic Performance at the University

The research aimed at analyzing if the academic Accounting Sciences student’s performance is different among the learning styles and observable characteristics academic and professors. Data were collected through the application of the Kolb Learning Styles Inventory (1984), in a sample with 94 students and 23 teachers. Linear regression and mean tests were used in the data analysis. The results indicated that 45.74% of the students are convergent style and 43.48% of the teachers are the assimilating learning style. Of the twenty-six groups analyzed, seven presented significant differences in academic performance, which are: reproof, dedicated weekly hours to extraclass studies, enem entrance note, ease in Mathematics and matching styles of teacher learning with the student. Students with the same teacher learning style tend to have a lower rate of reproof, proving the theory proposed by Kolb (1984). In this way, the theoretical platform addressed by Kolb (1984) helps to foment the debate and supports the strategies development for a cyclical education that meets the maximum of the existing learning needs, in particular, so that didactic teaching action can achieve all kinds of learning styles of students.