This review outlines encouraging and discouraging factors in stimulating the adoption of
deep approaches to learning in student-centred learning environments. Both encouraging …

Prior education studies have consistently emphasized the importance of sustained and
active student engagement to aid academic performance and achievement of learning …

Achievement goal theory has been one of the most prominent theories of motivation in
educational research for more than 25 years. It has undergone considerable revision during …

How can university teachers improve the quality of student learning? Prosser and Trigwell
argue that the answer lies in determining how students perceive their unique learning …

The relationship between university students' perceptions of their academic environment,
their approaches to study, and academic outcomes was investigated at both university and …

Twenty-five years later, Jensen's view is one that many today would still support, although
the nature of the individual differences targeted would be different. Current interest is …

A sample of 206 second-year Education students completed questionnaires on issues
relating to their preparation for and perceptions of two methods of assessment of the same …

Theories of learning and teaching have tended in the past to have been derived top‐down,
from existing theory. It is increasingly recognised today that such a strategy oversimplifies a …

Previous studies of the relationship between perceptions and/or evaluations of the learning
environment and approaches to study have either not included measures of students' …

Describes the development and testing of a German-language instrument for assessing
learning strategies in university students. The questionnaire distinguishes among cognitive …