Student learning and academic understanding [electronic resource] : a research perspective with implications for teaching / Noel Entwistle.

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 a...

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Main Author: Entwistle, Noel James (Author)
Language:English
Published: London ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, [2018]
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Variant Title:
Student Learning and Academic Understanding: A Research Perspective with Implications for Teaching
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Part 1. Introduction. Researching student learning
  • Evolving ideas about human learning
  • Part 2. Student learning and studying. Predicting academic performance at university
  • Learning from the student's perspective
  • Approaches to learning in everyday studying
  • Measuring the approaches to learning and studying
  • Part 3. The nature of academic understanding. Experiences of personal academic understanding
  • Thinking processes in academic understanding
  • Disciplinary ways of thinking
  • Part 4. Influences on academic understanding. Research into university teaching
  • Effects of teaching-learning environments on student learning
  • Part 5. Integrative overview. Student learning, understanding, and implications for teaching
  • Appendices: A. Inventories and their development
  • B. Extracts from related material.