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Examining the cultural specificity of approaches to learning in universities in Hong Kong and Sydney

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posted on 2023-05-17, 17:36 authored by Leung, DYP, Ginns, P, David KemberDavid Kember
Western research has characterized approaches to learning for specific learning tasks as discrete deep and surface approaches, distinguished by whether the intention is to understand or memorize. A more appropriate classification scheme for Hong Kong research is a continuum between deep and surface poles. In this article, the authors examine whether this characterization applies also to the West. University students in Australia (n = 1,146) and Hong Kong (n = 1,266) complete the revised Study Process Questionnaire. There are no effects by either discipline or study level in either country. Multiple-group analyses using structural equation modeling show configural invariance across the two samples, suggesting that the continuum characterization of approaches to learning is likely to be applicable for Western counterparts. Hong Kong students had higher mean scores for both deep and surface approaches, showing their greater use of intermediate approaches. © 2008 Sage Publications.

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Publication title

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volume

39

Pagination

251-266

ISSN

0022-0221

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

Sage Publications Inc

Place of publication

2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, USA, Ca, 91320

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Copyright 2008 Sage Publications

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Learner and learning not elsewhere classified

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