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Learning Processes and Approaches: Examining Their Interrelationships to Understand Student Learning
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Chennamsetti, Prashanti – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between two contrasting research paradigms, namely, cognitive and experiential research, a significant literature review previously unaddressed. To achieve this objective, a conceptual description of three theoretical frameworks, Dual-Store model, Levels of Processing (LOP; drawn from…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Learning Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Teaching Methods
Approaches to Studying and Levels of Processing in University Students.
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Entwistle, Noel J.; Waterston, Susan – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
Describes study that compared results of two inventories, one based on cognitive psychology and one from educational research, that measured university students' study styles and strategies. Factor analyses of the inventories and correlations between are reported, and research results from the United States and from other countries are discussed.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Correlation, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
Attention to Semantic versus Phonetic Verbal Attributes as a Function of Individual Differences in Arousal and Learning Strategy.
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Schmeck, Ronald R; Spofford, Mark – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1982
An investigation was undertaken to determine whether highly aroused (e.g. highly anxious) students are handicapped with regard to their ability to learn through deep processing and elaboration. The hypothesis that well-developed deep and elaborative habits of thought might counteract the disruptive effects that excessive arousal has upon students…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Attention, Cognitive Style, Higher Education
Study Approaches, Processes and Strategies: Are Three Perspectives Better than One?
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Speth, Carol; Brown, Robert – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
Describes study of 383 college students in educational psychology classes that was designed to determine how students describe study activities. Completed inventories are compared from three theoretical perspectives: cognitive processes, approaches to learning, and autonomous studying, and factor analyses are explained. (25 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Educational Psychology, Factor Analysis
Development of an Instrument To Assess Learning Strategies.
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Chissom, Brad; And Others – 1989
Using items gathered directly from learners and checked against a theoretical model of learning, an instrument to assess learning strategies was developed. The approach involved collection of descriptions of learning strategies from undergraduate and graduate students, implementation of a principal components analysis to determine the factor…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Factor Structure, Grade Point Average, Graduate Students
Self-Concept and Learning: The Revised Inventory of Learning Processes.
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Schmeck, Ronald R.; And Others – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1991
Describes early research examining the validity of the original Inventory of Learning Processes. Presents a revised version of the inventory with reliability and validity data. Discusses reflective and agentic processing as the two major routes to academic achievement. Concludes that the smooth flow of cognition depends on the student's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes