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Deeply Affecting First-Year Students' Thinking: Deep Approaches to Learning and Three Dimensions of Cognitive Development

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  • Thomas F. Nelson Laird
  • Tricia A. Seifert
  • Ernest T. Pascarella
  • Matthew J. Mayhew
  • Charles F. Blaich

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This study estimates the effects of a deep approaches to learning scale and its subscales on measures of students' critical thinking, need for cognition, and positive attitudes toward literacy, controlling for pre-college scores for the outcomes and other covariates. Results suggest reflection is critical to making gains across the outcomes.

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  • Thomas F. Nelson Laird & Tricia A. Seifert & Ernest T. Pascarella & Matthew J. Mayhew & Charles F. Blaich, 2014. "Deeply Affecting First-Year Students' Thinking: Deep Approaches to Learning and Three Dimensions of Cognitive Development," The Journal of Higher Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 85(3), pages 402-432, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:uhejxx:v:85:y:2014:i:3:p:402-432
    DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2014.11777333
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    1. Ethan Youngerman & Laura S. Dahl & Matthew J. Mayhew, 2021. "Examining the Psychometric Properties of a New Integrative Learning Scale," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 62(6), pages 829-854, September.
    2. John Zilvinskis & Anthony A. Masseria & Gary R. Pike, 2017. "Student Engagement and Student Learning: Examining the Convergent and Discriminant Validity of the Revised National Survey of Student Engagement," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 58(8), pages 880-903, December.
    3. Fenglong Yu & Qian Chen & Bing Hou, 2021. "Understanding the Impacts of Chinese Undergraduate Tourism Students’ Professional Identity on Learning Engagement," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(23), pages 1-16, December.
    4. Corbin M. Campbell & Jessica Ostrow Michel & Shikha Patel & Maia Gelashvili, 2019. "College Teaching from Multiple Angles: A Multi-trait Multi-method Analysis of College Courses," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 60(5), pages 711-735, August.
    5. Marta Sabariego Puig & Angelina Sánchez-Martí & Antoni Ruiz-Bueno & José Sánchez-Santamaría, 2020. "The Effects of Learning Contexts on the Development of Reflective Thinking in University Education: Design and Validation of a Questionnaire," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(8), pages 1-18, April.

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