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TINAJERO VACAS, Carolina  y  PARAMO FERNANDEZ, María Fernanda. Cognitive Style. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2013, n.64, pp.57-78. ISSN 0120-3916.

This work offers a research review about the implication of dependence-independence cognitive style field on the teaching-learning process. After clarifying the idea of psychological style, cognitive style and justifying its importance for the educational context, then it is shown the important results available about the differences of the subjects that belong to different styles in relation to learning strategies, material preferences and instructional methodology are shown and apparently are at the base of the differences of school performance.

Palabras clave : Cognitive style; learning style; field dependence; learning; strategies; performance; academic achievement.

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