Recognizing Cognitive and Learning Styles. Project AISFU: a research with high school students

Cognitive and learning styles represent a bridge between cognition and personality and seem to have important implications in understanding, predicting, and improving educational achievements. The AISFU Project (integrated actions for university studies), promoted by theUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia, has been realized to study cognitive and learning styles of seventeen years old students’ of the fourth year of high schools of Modena and Reggio Emilia. This research aims to answer to the need, pointed out both from high school and university teachers’ to help students to find appropriate methods for studying and acquiring useful strategies to process information according to different contexts and tasks. The use of strategies consistent with their own cognitive profiles can lead students to achieve a more efficient way to study and, as a consequence, to obtain better academic performances.