Student Learning and Academic Understanding

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-12-805359-1
Verlag: ACADEMIC PRESS

Buch, Englisch, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 537 g

The research described in Student Learning and Academic Understanding had its origins in the pioneering work of Ausubel, Bruner, and McKeachie and followed two complementary lines of development. The first line extended the ideas of Marton on approaches to learning through an inventory designed to assess these approaches among large samples of students and using in-depth interviews with students about their experiences of academic understanding. The second line drew on a range of studies to explore the influences of university teaching and the whole teaching-learning environment on the quality of student learning. Taking the research as a whole shows the value of complementary research approaches to describing student learning, while the findings brought together in the final chapter suggest ways of supporting deep approaches and the development of personal academic understanding among students.

Student Learning and Academic Understanding covers a wide range of concepts that have emerged from interviews in which students use their own experiences to describe how they study and what they find most useful in developing an academic understanding of their own. These concepts differ from the traditional psychological concepts by being focused on the specific contexts of university and college, although they are also relevant to the later stages of school education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Entwistle, Noel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Lernen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The evolution of psychological concepts describing human learning2. Predicting academic performance using psychological measures3. Using interviews to describe the development of students' learning4. Approaches to learning and learning styles5. Strategic approaches to studying6. Forms of understanding and knowledge objects7. Measuring approaches to learning and studying8. Influences on approaches to learning and studying9. Implications of the research findingsAppendix: Inventories used to assess different approaches, and a description of phenomenographic interviewing and analysis

Über Autor(innen)

Entwistle, Noel
Noel Entwistle, PhD, was the Bell Professor of Education in the University of Edinburgh from 1978 until 2005 and previously Professor of Educational Research in the University of Lancaster. With his original degree in physics, Dr. Entwistle taught physics for three years before moving into educational research at the University of Aberdeen where he obtained a PhD in educational psychology. Subsequently, Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Society for Research into Higher Education an the Scottish Council for Resarch in Education with honary doctorates from Gothenburg and Turku. Editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and the international journal, Higher Education.