Student Learning and Academic Understanding

Student Learning and Academic Understanding

Last edition Elsevier 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..

Last Edition

ISBN 13: 9780128053591

Imprint: Elsevier

Language: English

Authors: Noel Entwistle

Pub Date: 06/2018

Pages: 398

Illus: Illustrated

Weight: 620.000 grams

Size: h 152 X 229 mm

Product Type: Softcover

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  • • Explains the origins, meanings, and relevance of "deep" and "surface" approaches to learning
  • • Introduces an array of concepts derived from the specific contexts of university education
  • • Illustrates how in-depth interviewing can be used to explore students’ ways of thinking
  • • Provides a series of heuristic models to guide thinking about the influences on student learning
  • • Includes an inventory on approaches to studying and experiences of teaching for use by teachers
  • Noel Entwistle, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. Noel Entwistle is Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Edinburgh. He was previously the editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and Higher Education, and has an international reputation for his work in the field of student learning in higher education.
  • The evolution of psychological concepts describing human learning
  • 2. Predicting academic performance using psychological measures
  • 3. Using interviews to describe the development of students' learning
  • 4. Approaches to learning and learning styles
  • 5. Strategic approaches to studying
  • 6. Forms of understanding and knowledge objects
  • 7. Measuring approaches to learning and studying
  • 8. Influences on approaches to learning and studying
  • 9. Implications of the research findings
  • Appendix: Inventories used to assess different approaches, and a description of phenomenographic interviewing and analysis
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