Resumen

POLEO, Gustavo  y  RUBINO, Antonio Nicolás. Individual differences and their relationship with academic performance of students in a Web learning environment. Revista de Investigación [online]. 2008, vol.32, n.65, pp.199-220. ISSN 1010-2914.

The main purpose of this work consisted in determining the relationship between individual differences and academic performance of pregrade students of Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas in a Web learning environment. The research was developed under the modality of workfield with a cuasi experimental design with categorical and continual variables. The relevant findings might be summarized in: (a) the determination of a positive and significant correlation between the variable of computer access and the use of the computer at the instructional process attitude; (b) a positive and significant correlation at a population level between access to his own computer and students skill; (c) a significant and negative correlation at a population level between skill and learning style, (d) a significant and negative correlation between academic performance and gender; (e) the signicance of the model which includes the co-variable gender. From these results some implications for the implementation of the WLE at the UPEL are presented.

Palabras clave : Communication and information technologies; atmospheres of learning based on the Web; individual differences; educative innovation.