Is the University System in Australia Producing Deep Thinkers?

Autor/inn/en	Lake, Warren W.; Boyd, William E.
Titel	Is the University System in Australia Producing Deep Thinkers?
Quelle	In: Australian Universities' Review, 57 (2015) 2, S.54-59 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0818-8068
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Critical Thinking; Thinking Skills; College Instruction; Age Differences; Adult Students; Questionnaires; College Students; Learning Strategies; Bachelors Degrees; Graduation; Cognitive Style; Australia; Study Process Questionnaire + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Kritisches Denken; Denkfähigkeit; Hochschullehre; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Adult; Adults; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Fragebogen; Collegestudent; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; 'Bachelor''s degrees'; Bachelor-Studiengang; Abschluss; Graduierung; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Australien
Abstract	Teaching and learning research since the 1980s has established a trend in students' learning approach tendencies, characterised by decreasing surface learning and increasing deep learning with increasing age. This is an important trend in higher education, especially at a time of increasing numbers of older students: are we graduating more deep learners? In revisiting these trends, our study elaborates on the past model by using the revised two-factor questionnaire (R-SPQ-2F). The current study suggests that trends in the shift between surface and deep learning approaches are more related to other factors rather than to age per se. Importantly, school leavers do not exhibit significantly weaker trends towards deep learning approaches than do mature-age students. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01