The Role of Personal Values in Learning Approaches and Student Achievements

Kelum A A Gamage,Sakunthala Y Ekanayake,D M S C P K Dehideniya Dehideniya

doi:10.3390/bs11070102

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Personal values play a significant role when adopting learning approaches by individuals during their studies. Particularly in higher education, these values significantly influence the character that individuals play within their learning community and ultimately influence their academic achievements. The purpose of this paper is to investigate personal values in their choice of learning approaches and, subsequently, how it impacts one’s academic achievements. It also investigates the importance of developing an individual’s personal values as a part of their wider studies, while aligning these with graduate attributes and balancing them with knowledge and skills, to produce successful graduates in a society.

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Values are the fundamental beliefs, behaviours and attitudes that have been approved and accepted as what is good by society for a long time
According to Lietz and Matthews [27], research studies have focused on studying the differences in choice of learning approach and personal values relationships depending on gender, discipline area of study, prior performance and the experiences of students, especially the students who undertake higher education in another country
With regards to personal values, researchers in this context have confirmed that values are correlated with different learning approaches

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Values are the fundamental beliefs, behaviours and attitudes that have been approved and accepted as what is good by society for a long time. Various studies on personal values have shown that they often guide decision making in all aspects of life such as career, religion, social circles and self-identity [1]. Another aspect of personal values is that they can be viewed as desirable motivational goals and interests of an individual or the guiding principles in life. They have been seen as the non-existent mental entities and as the outcomes of mental development. Uncovering the background literature through the above four areas are important for the total comprehension of the reader

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