UNIMAS' students's conceptions of learning

• Main Author: Zuresty Pottena, Anak Gary
• Format: Final Year Project Report
• Language: English
• Published: University Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2011
• Subjects: L Education (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/4248/8/Zuresty%20Pottena%20%20%28fulltext%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/4248/

This study aims to identify conceptions of learning that exist among UNIMAS' students. Specifically, this study attempts to identify which conceptions of learning is mostly held and least held by students in the selected group. In addition, differences in conceptions of learning based on genders and disciplines of study in C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6 also being identified (C1:Gaining knowledge; C2:Remembering, Using, Understand Information; C3:Duty; Personal Change; Process not Bound by Time or Place; Social Competence). 145 students were randomly selected from Faculty of Medicine and Health Science (FMHS) and Faculty of Social Science (FSS) in UNIMAS to take part in this research. Data was collected through a survey questionnaires which taken from Conceptions of Learning Inventory (COLI) by Purdie & Hattie (2002). The results showed that students from both faculties mostly conceive learning as personal change and least conceive learning as a process not bound by time or place. The fmding fmd that there is no significance difference between conceptions of learning and genders. It was also found that there is significance difference between disciplines of study in conception of learning as remembering, using and understanding information (C2) and conception of learning as personel change (C4). This study concluded that conceptions of learning are important to be identified among undergraduates students to facilitate their learning process at the university.