LEARNING APPROACHES IN DENTAL STUDENTS: AN INSTRUMENTAL AND PROFILES ANALYSIS
Journal Title: Psychological Thought - Year 2024, Vol 17, Issue 2
Abstract
Students' learning approaches are described as different modes, procedures, or strategies that students use to process the information they need to learn. This paper analyzes the learning approaches in students of Dentistry using the Revised Two Factor Study Process Questionnaire (R-SPQ-2F). It is proposed, on the one hand, to analyze the internal structure of the instrument, and on the other, to examine approaches to students and their relationship to academic performance. 752 dental students participated. As a result, adequate evidence of the instrument's internal validity was obtained -confirmatory factor analysis, internal consistency, and factorial invariance analysis. Besides, a latent profile analysis obtained two learning approach profiles. One profile, with a deep approach over the surface, and the other, with similar levels of both. Then an analysis of average differences found that students who mostly employ the deep approach have higher academic performance than those with similar levels of both approaches. These results show that while it is important to promote the adoption of the deep approach in students, it is necessary to consider both -deep and surface-, as they are not exclusive. Although learning approaches are measured independently, in practice students combine features of both by forming their learning profiles.
Authors and Affiliations
Nancy Beatriz Mendel, Florencia Anabel Motta, Camila Scheinsohn, Agustín Freiberg Hoffmann
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP752891
- DOI https://doi.org/10.37708/psyct.v17i2.928
- Views 25
- Downloads 1
WORK VS. FAMILY AND MARITAL SATISFACTION AMONG MALAYSIAN CHINESE DUAL-EARNER COUPLES: AN ACTOR-PARTNER INTERDEPENDENCE MODEL
Work-family conflict is frequently studied because they are the two main life domains in a person’s life. The present study examines how work-family conflict influenced marital satisfaction among Malaysian Chinese dual-e...
VR Technology Application in Psychology, Social Sciences and Business: An Interview with Boyan Milushev
In this interview are presented some terms related to the simulated environment and virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR). Some peculiarities of VR immersion are discussed and its use for psych...
DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF DARK TETRADE ON FLOURISHING AND PERCEIVED CONTROL
The aim of the present study was to outline the direct and indirect effects of the Dark Tetrade (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy and sadism) on flourishing, perceived personal control (mastery, self-control, ex...
Perceiving University Education as More Important for Men than for Women: Gender Differences and Predictors of this Perception in Muslim Societies
Education for women in Muslim societies had been discussed widely. However, it remains unclear if the perception of the importance of university education in Muslim societies and its predictors are different between men...
BURNOUT, BOROUT AND MOBBING AMONG TEACHERS POST COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS
A questionnaire was adapted to measure the negative predictors of teachers' job satisfaction and performance after the pandemic restriction, imposing learning in e-environment,. For this purpose, burnout scale with compo...