Negotiating learning: are shortcuts good or bad for our students?

Today’s increasingly globalised world places specific demands on young people pursuing tertiary education. There is a growing contention that students are increasingly “engaging in shortcut behaviour” due to the competitive nature of studies at Malaysian universities. Although the phrase has not bee...

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Main Authors: Mohd Hashim, Intan Hashimah, Endut, Noraida, Azwan, Azman, Abdul Rahman, Shukran,
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Language:English
Published: National Higher Education Research Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2007
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author Mohd Hashim, Intan Hashimah
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Azwan, Azman
Abdul Rahman, Shukran
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description Today’s increasingly globalised world places specific demands on young people pursuing tertiary education. There is a growing contention that students are increasingly “engaging in shortcut behaviour” due to the competitive nature of studies at Malaysian universities. Although the phrase has not been widely established in related academic areas as describing particular learning behaviour, “engaging in shortcut behaviour” may be operationally defined as a situation whereby, in order to achieve a particular learning result, a student undertakes courses of actions that are perceived to require lesser time and effort than are conventionally prescribed
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spelling iium-812882020-09-25T01:36:09Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/81288/ Negotiating learning: are shortcuts good or bad for our students? Mohd Hashim, Intan Hashimah Endut, Noraida Azwan, Azman Abdul Rahman, Shukran , BF Psychology BF501 Motivation Today’s increasingly globalised world places specific demands on young people pursuing tertiary education. There is a growing contention that students are increasingly “engaging in shortcut behaviour” due to the competitive nature of studies at Malaysian universities. Although the phrase has not been widely established in related academic areas as describing particular learning behaviour, “engaging in shortcut behaviour” may be operationally defined as a situation whereby, in order to achieve a particular learning result, a student undertakes courses of actions that are perceived to require lesser time and effort than are conventionally prescribed National Higher Education Research Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2007 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/81288/1/J35.%20Negotiating%20Learning-%20Are%20shortcuts%20Good%20or%20Bad%20for%20our%20students.pdf Mohd Hashim, Intan Hashimah and Endut, Noraida and Azwan, Azman and Abdul Rahman, Shukran and UNSPECIFIED (2007) Negotiating learning: are shortcuts good or bad for our students? Bulletin of Higher Education Research. pp. 21-22.
spellingShingle BF Psychology
BF501 Motivation
Mohd Hashim, Intan Hashimah
Endut, Noraida
Azwan, Azman
Abdul Rahman, Shukran
,
Negotiating learning: are shortcuts good or bad for our students?
title Negotiating learning: are shortcuts good or bad for our students?
title_full Negotiating learning: are shortcuts good or bad for our students?
title_fullStr Negotiating learning: are shortcuts good or bad for our students?
title_full_unstemmed Negotiating learning: are shortcuts good or bad for our students?
title_short Negotiating learning: are shortcuts good or bad for our students?
title_sort negotiating learning: are shortcuts good or bad for our students?
topic BF Psychology
BF501 Motivation
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/81288/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/81288/1/J35.%20Negotiating%20Learning-%20Are%20shortcuts%20Good%20or%20Bad%20for%20our%20students.pdf