Learning Patterns in Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

Dimensions and research perspectives
Redaktion: Gijbels, David; Vermunt, Jan D.; Richardson, John T. E.; Donche, Vincent

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Learning Patterns in Higher Education brings together a cutting edge international team of contributors to critically review our current understanding of how students and adults learn, how differences and changes in the way students learn can be measured in a valid and reliable way, and how the quality of student learning may be enhanced.

There is substantial evidence that students in higher education have a characteristic way of learning, sometimes called their learning orientation (Biggs 1988), learning style (Evans et al. 2010) or learning pattern (Vermunt and Vermetten 2004). However, recent research in the field of student learning has resulted in multi-faceted and sometimes contradictory results which may reflect conceptual differences and differences in measurement of student learning in each of the studies. This book deals with the need for further clarification of how students learn in higher education in the 21st century and to what extent the measurements often used in learning pattern studies are still up to date or can be advanced with present methodological and statistical insights to capture the most important differences and changes in student learning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134633524
• Artikelnr.: 39576418

Inhaltsangabe

1. Students' learning patterns in higher education and beyond: moving forward; 2. (Dis)similarities in research on learning approaches and learning patterns; 3. The dimensionality in student learning patterns in different cultures; 4. Modelling factors for predicting student learning outcomes in higher education; 5. Exploring the concept of `self-directedness in learning`. Theoretical approaches and measurement in adult education literature; 6. Student teachers' learning patterns in school-based teacher education programmes: the influence of person, context and time; 7. Achievement goals, approaches to studying and academic attainment; 8. Learning processes in higher education: Providing new insights to understand the effects of motivation and cognition on specific and global measures of achievement; 9. University students' achievement goals and approaches to learning in mathematics: a re-analysis investigating 'learning patterns'; 10. Exploring the use of a deep approach to learning with students in the process of learning to teach; 11. Understanding differences in student learning and academic achievement in first year higher education: an integrated research perspective; 12. Challenges in analysing change in students' approaches to learning; 13. Students' approaches to learning in higher education: The interplay between context and student; 14. Do case-based learning environments matter? Research into their effects on students' approaches to learning, motivation and achievement; 15. Learning patterns in transition: reflections and prospects

Rezensionen

"It examines and discusses the concept of learning patterns which the first chapter notes are '[broadly] students' habitual ways of learning described in terms of how students cognitively process information and/or the metacognitive. motivational and affective strategies they use' (p.1.)" -Dr. Peter Gossman, Manchester Metropolitan University, Educational Developments

"Researchers and teachers will find this book a useful resource on student learning and enhancement. ... This book is well researched. Readers will profit from its extensive treatment of learning theories, and it will enhance an educator's overall teaching competence." -Reflective Teaching