Students' conceptions of learning in an engineering context |
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Authors: | Delia Marshall Mike Summer Brian Woolnough |
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Affiliation: | (1) Physics Department, University of The Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa;(2) University of Oxford, UK |
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Abstract: | Research on student learning in higher education has highlighted the central role that students' conceptions of learning play in influencing their approaches to learning. This article reports on a study of conceptions of learning among engineering students on a one-year foundation course. Students were interviewed about their conceptions of learning at three intervals during their academic year. The data was analysed using a phenomenographic perspective and from the data five qualitatively different conceptions of learning were identified. The resulting characterisation of these conceptions of learning is presented using excerpts from the interviews and some implications for student learning are discussed. |
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