Identification of variables that influence in the learning styles. keys to know how the students learn

the identification of different types of learning styles is a crucial fact in psycho pedagogical guidance. The knowledge of the variables that influence the students's learning process gives the teachers some significant information for the design of a appropriate psycho pedagogical intervention to the different ways of students's learning styles. The aim of this paper is to show results obtained in a research made with 317 secondary education students from the "Comunidad Autonoma de la Region de Murcia" who answered to the LSI (Learning Styles Inventory) method of styles evaluation, translated and adapted specifically for this study. This paper establishes the reliability of the method and later is shows the results of the differential study of patterns of behaviour in relation to learning styles, in the relevant categories of gender and course.