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Do the different ways that teachers go about teaching have different outcomes for their students’ learning? This is the question addressed in this book. It is introduced in this chapter through a model describing the relations between university teaching and student learning. Using a presage-process-product format, the model proposes (a) that students’ experiences of their learning context are related to their learning outcomes through approaches to study and (b) that teachers’ experiences of their academic context are related to their approaches to teaching and crucially, to the approach to learning adopted by their students. Empirical results focusing on relations between the key variations in teachers’ and students’ experiences that support the proposed model are the subject of this book.
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Trigwell, K., Prosser, M. (2020). Exploring Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. In: Exploring University Teaching and Learning. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50830-2_1
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