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Deeply Affecting First-Year Students’ Thinking: Deep Approaches to Learning and Three Dimensions of Cognitive Development
- The Journal of Higher Education
- The Ohio State University Press
- Volume 85, Number 3, May/June 2014
- pp. 402-432
- 10.1353/jhe.2014.0017
- Article
- Additional Information
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.