dc.contributor.author | Virtanen, Anne | |
dc.contributor.author | Tynjala, Paivi | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-19T05:27:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-02-19T05:27:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1356-2517 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/13562517.2018.1515195 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/391689 | |
dc.description.abstract | Although generic skills have received widespread attention from both policymakers and educationalists, little is known regarding how students acquire these skills, or how they should best be taught. Hence, the aim of this study was to identify what kinds of pedagogical practices are behind the learning of eight particular generic skills. The data were collected from university students (N = 163, n = 123) via Internet questionnaires. The findings from regression analyses showed that teaching practices involving collaboration and interaction as well as features of a constructivist learning environment and integrative pedagogy predicted the learning of generic skills – such as decision-making skills, different forms of creativity, and problem-solving skills. In contrast, the traditional forms of university teaching – such as reading, lecturing, and working alone – were negatively associated to learning generic skills. Overall, this study offers detailed information about the pedagogical practices that nurture learning generic skills in university contexts. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 880 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 894 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 7 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Teaching in Higher Education | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 24 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Education systems | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Specialist studies in education | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3903 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3904 | |
dc.subject.keywords | Social Sciences | |
dc.subject.keywords | Education & Educational Research | |
dc.subject.keywords | Generic skills | |
dc.subject.keywords | learning | |
dc.subject.keywords | teaching | |
dc.title | Factors explaining the learning of generic skills: a study of university students' experiences | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Virtanen, A; Tynjala, P, Factors explaining the learning of generic skills: a study of university students' experiences, Teaching in Higher Education , 2019, 24 (7), pp. 880-894 | |
dcterms.license | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-02-19T05:24:52Z | |
dc.description.version | Version of Record (VoR) | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Tynjala, Paivi | |