Student Learning and Academic Understanding: A Research Perspective with Implications for Teaching

Student Learning and Academic Understanding: A Research Perspective with Implications for Teaching introduces the wide range of concepts used to describe aspects of student learning and studying, including the concepts of knowledge and learning, approaches to learning, strategic approaches to studying, forms of understanding, knowledge objects, and the disposition to understand for oneself. Providing a thorough perspective on the research and theoretical development of the psychology of student learning, the book traces the path of general psychological concepts to describe student learning in relation to ability, motivation and study methods. Finally, it describes the change in approach that led to the emergence of contextually specific concepts that described learning within everyday university settings. Details notions of deep and surface approaches to learningDiscusses how to best predict academic performanceDescribes different learning stylesIncludes an appendix of inventories used to assess different learning approaches, along with a description of phenomenographic interviewing and analysis INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-12-805359-1
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 250
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés