Four learning patterns (meaning-, reproduction-, application-, and undirected) form a replicable factor structure in first-year higher education students¶
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q2 i? First-year higher education students show a four-factor structure joining processing strategies, regulation strategies, conceptions, and orientations into meaning-, reproduction-, application-, and undirected learning patterns. → Vermunt 2004
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Vermunt 2004¶
Vermunt, J. D. & Vermetten, Y. J. (2004). Patterns in Student Learning: Relationships Between Learning Strategies, Conceptions of Learning, and Learning Orientations. Educational Psychology Review. https://dspacelibrary.uu.nl/handle/1874/11958
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Narrative review of factor-analytic studies: the review reports that studies with first-year students, including Busato et al. (1998) and Schouwenburg (1996), "repeatedly confirmed" the four-pattern structure found in open university (N = 654) and regular university (N = 795) samples. No effect sizes are printed for this structural finding.
"Recent research with first-year students in higher education has repeatedly confirmed the internal structure of learning styles as shown in the patterns of factor loadings of the ILS scales."
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Related Claims¶
- Cross-country meta-analysis: meaning-directed, reproduction-directed and undirected patterns are universal, while application-directed, passive-idealistic and passive-motivational patterns are context-specific — related
- Studies since 2004 confirm strong interrelations among processing strategies, regulation strategies, conceptions, and motivations of learning patterns — related
- Meaning-directed learning relates positively, and reproduction- and undirected learning negatively, to study achievement indicators — related
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Four learning patterns (meaning-, reproduction-, application-, and undirected) form a replicable factor structure in first-year higher education students |
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Four learning patterns (meaning-, reproduction-, application-, and undirected) form a replicable factor structure in first-year higher education students |
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