** Learning orientations and study contracts - Beaty et al 2005 ** - The Diigo Meta page

• 22 Apr 09
  

  Youenn Leborgne

  Notions:
  learning, orientation, approach, conception, study contract, effort, motivation
  
  The paper is based on students' quotes
  
  Differences in students' orientation to learning strongly influence their experience of learning
  
  It is possible to gain very many different kinds of things from the same course
  
  In describing the learner's orientation to education, we must take account of both institutional and personal contexts of study
  
  Conflict between "getting the grade" and "really learning something"
  
  learning orientations: aims, attitudes, purposes which form the personal context for the individual student's learning
  
  4 study orientations are very useful analytic categories. For the first 3, we can divide between intrinsic and extrinsic orientations (whether or not the students were interested in the content of the course).
  ** See table and article **
  
  1. academic
  intrinsic interest: intellectual interest (choosing stimulating lectures)
  extrinsic: education progression (grades and academic progress)
  2. vocational
  intrinsic: training (relevance of course to future career)
  extrinsic: qualification (recognition of qualification's worth)
  3. personal
  intrinsic: broadening or self-improvement (challenging, interesting material)
  extrinsic: compensation of proof of capability (feedback and passing the course)
  4. social:
  (extrinsic:) having a good time (facilities for sport and social activities)
  
  Study "contract" (internally negotitated by the students with themselves): relationship between students' orientations and their approaches (how and where to spend the most efforts, etc.) to studying.
  Long term planning and internal negotiation. The effectiveness of this contract depends of good information
  
  Many lecturers seem unaware of the very different orientations held by their students
  
  Student study in a strategic way to maximise their achievement but within their own definition of what achievement mean

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