Articles about the conceptions of teaching of university academics are reviewed. There is
found to be a high level of correspondence between largely independent studies reported in …

How can university teachers improve the quality of student learning? Prosser and Trigwell
argue that the answer lies in determining how students perceive their unique learning …

Universities are rarely structured to facilitate learning and when they are, it is often done so
in a limited way. This book looks at the theory and practice of learning and how universities …

Recent research in the areas of cognitive psychology and student learning involves
changed conceptions of the natures of learning and of teaching, with promising implications …

There exists now a voluminous literature that characterises" student learning." Of particular
importance to this article are the attempts to categorise and classify underlying conceptions …

It is now well established that students can hold differing, but readily identifiable,
conceptions of learning. This study attempted to discover whether parallel conceptions of …

This study examines conceptions of teaching held by academic teachers in the fields of
science and social science, in two universities: a distance university in the UK and a …

This volume sets out to provide experience-based tools for those needing to assess and
improve teaching and learning quality. It presents a detailed framework explaining what …

The Approaches to teaching inventory (ATI) is now being widely used as an instrument for
formally monitoring approaches to teaching. A lesser‐known use is as a stimulant for …

A model that hypothesized relationships between high school students' conceptions of
learning, their percpetions of the classroom environment, and their approaches to learning …