What is an effective learner? A comparison of further education students’ views with a theoretical construction of effective learners
| Autor: | Hilary McQueen, John Webber |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Further and Higher Education. 37:715-735 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9486 0309-877X |
| Popis: | Following an investigation of students’ views of one further education college’s teaching and learning model (McQueen and Webber 2009), a second project, reported here, sought to review students’ ideas about what constitutes an effective learner. For this project a set of 36 statements was constructed based on theoretical models and research about effective learning. A total of 102 further education (FE) students aged 16–21, drawn from both vocational and academic courses, contributed to focus group discussions about their definitions of an effective learner, whether their views have changed since school and who, if anyone, helps people to become effective learners. They then individually rated the statements for both importance and the extent to which each element described them as learners. In general, what was considered important correlated with self-descriptions of students (p = 0.01). However, there were some exceptions. For example, statements in the category of self-management and regulation were ... |
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