Relationship between Study Approaches with Academic Achievement and Student’s Conception of Learning

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Mahnaz Akbari ¹ , Jalil Fathabadi ² , Isaac Almasi ³ , Jahanshah Mohammadzadeh ⁴

1 - psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Department of psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Department of psychology, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran.
4 - Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran.

Received: 2015-01-05 Accepted : 2019-04-06 Published : 2019-06-22

Keywords: Study approaches, Academic Achievement, Surface approaches, Conception of learning, Deep approaches, Strategy approaches,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to investigate the students' deep, surface and strategic learning approaches relationship with academic achievement and student’s perception of learning. The statistical population of this study was 5800 students of Ilam University that by using tht categorical random sampling method and the Cochran sample size formula, 534 students from the faculties of humanities, sciences, engineering and agriculture at Ilam University (310 girls and 224 boys) were selected as sample group. The subjects responded to the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students “ASSIST” (Entwistle, 1997) that the first section af this inventory assess student’s concepts of learning and the individual information checklist and academic achievement checklist. Data were analyzed using the crosstabs, contingency coefficient, Pearson Chi-square coefficient Pearson and Spearman correlation and using SPSS22 software. The results of the study showed positive correlation between strategic (p <0.005, r = 0.18) deep approaches (p <0.0001, r = 0.22) and academic achievement, negative correlation between surface approach (05 / 0> p, 11 / 0- = r) and academic achievement. Also there was significant relationship between learning concepts and study approaches (p <0.05).

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