Educational System based on Cognitive styles and/or Learning styles?

The concept of cognitive styles is frequently applied in the field of educational systems research (Chou, Chan & Lin, 2003). Roberts and Newton (2001) suggested that although the concept of cognitive styles is a useful starting point, it is unable to account for many finds in the literature, and that any model of strategy usage that is reduced itself to mechanisms governing strategy selection is incomplete. It is necessary to consider which strategies people have available and how they discover new ones. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the learning strategies of undergraduate students of Psychology and Computing Sciences courses in order to explore possible variables to implement in a Intelligent Tutorial System. Thus, to evaluate learning strategies, the Ross Test of Cognitive Process, which evaluates the student individual performance of thinking process and strategies, was used. The results suggests that each group have different learning strategies choices. According to this, it is discussed the use of learning strategies to implement educational systems.