Adopting a "Satisficing" Model for School Performance in Students' Views of Learning

Autor/in	Hadar, Linor Lea
Titel	Adopting a "Satisficing" Model for School Performance in Students' Views of Learning
Quelle	In: Educational Research and Evaluation, 17 (2011) 3, S.193-214 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1380-3611
Schlagwörter	Student Attitudes; Active Learning; Factor Analysis; Learning Processes; High School Students; Qualitative Research; Statistical Analysis; Phenomenology; Foreign Countries; Public Schools; Essays; Learning Strategies; Grades (Scholastic); Student Participation; Repetition; Memorization; Attendance Patterns; Comprehension; Achievement; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schülerverhalten; Aktives Lernen; Faktorenanalyse; Learning process; Lernprozess; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Qualitative Forschung; Statistische Analyse; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Ausland; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Notenspiegel; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Wiederholung; Gedächtnistraining; Verstehen; Verständnis; Performance; Leistung
Abstract	This study explored students' views on learning in a sample of 171 secondary school students. The answers on an open-ended task were analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. The views on school learning were mostly reflected in the things students do in school in order to be good learners. Factor analysis of students' views of school learning showed they referred more to pragmatic categories, passive learning strategies, and grades than to active learning motives and understanding. The most dominant factor in students' views of school learning, adequate school performance, does not relate to actual learning processes but can be viewed as the minimal compliance behaviors students must perform in order to keep up in school by "satisficing" (Simon, 1955)--satisfying and sufficing--the teachers (task completion and class participation). Theoretical and educational implications were discussed to heighten educators' awareness of students' thinking about learning. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10