Rural University communities: Performance of working memory and fluid intelligence
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https://doi.org/10.33010/ie_rie_rediech.v14i0.1710Keywords:
Rural education, distance higher education, working memoryAbstract
This study pursued three objectives, the first of which was to compare the working memory capacity in the verbal and visuospatial domains between students from two rural communities in the distance learning modality. The second was to compare fluid intelligence between both groups, and the third was to compare the working memory scores of both communities with those obtained by an urban community with similar characteristics. Following a quantitative approach, a descriptive study was carried out with 33 university students in each group, of whom 45% were women with an average age of 20.9 years and 20.6 years in men. To measure working memory, complex span tasks were applied with stimuli from the verbal and visuospatial domains. To measure fluid intelligence, the Raven’s Progressive Matrices test general scale was applied. In both measurements, the scores were similar between both rural communities and in the comparison with the urban community, for the latter, higher scores were found in the tasks of the visuospatial domain. This suggests that the context of the students may have played an important role in the measurements obtained, according to similar previous works.
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