Lesley Willcoxson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1502202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesley Willcoxson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Willcoxson |
| SIGNATURE | WILLCOXSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murdoch University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond the first-year experience
In the face of difficult economic circumstances, increased competition and student diversity, attrition and retention have become issues of great significance to higher education institutions seeking to survive. A large body of work has explored the relationship between attrition and the first‐year experience, but there has been little focus on students' experience of university in subsequent years despite the fact that later year attrition count…
The impact of academics' learning and teaching preferences on their teaching practices
This study investigated factors underlying the approaches to teaching and the teaching strategies adopted by lecturers in four distinct academic disciplines. It examined the relationship between the way academic staff like to learn and the way they like to teach and the reasons they use the teaching strategies they adopt in lectures. It also examined the relationship between academics' perceptions of their teaching and their students' perceptions…
Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (1985)
In this study the validity and reliability of the revised version of Kolb's (1985) Learning Style Inventory are investigated using the responses to the LSI2 of 187 Arts and Science students in an Australian university. Results indicate high internal consistency of the LSI2 scales and some evidence of validity. While, as predicted, four factors forming two bipolar dimensions were found for the Science subsample, for the Arts subsample Active Exper…
Beyond the first-year experience
In the face of difficult economic circumstances, increased competition and student diversity, attrition and retention have become issues of great significance to higher education institutions seeking to survive. A large body of work has explored the relationship between attrition and the first‐year experience, but there has been little focus on students' experience of university in subsequent years despite the fact that later year attrition count…
The impact of academics' learning and teaching preferences on their teaching practices
This study investigated factors underlying the approaches to teaching and the teaching strategies adopted by lecturers in four distinct academic disciplines. It examined the relationship between the way academic staff like to learn and the way they like to teach and the reasons they use the teaching strategies they adopt in lectures. It also examined the relationship between academics' perceptions of their teaching and their students' perceptions…
Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (1985)
In this study the validity and reliability of the revised version of Kolb's (1985) Learning Style Inventory are investigated using the responses to the LSI2 of 187 Arts and Science students in an Australian university. Results indicate high internal consistency of the LSI2 scales and some evidence of validity. While, as predicted, four factors forming two bipolar dimensions were found for the Science subsample, for the Arts subsample Active Exper…
The impact of academics' learning and teaching preferences on their teaching practices
This study investigated factors underlying the approaches to teaching and the teaching strategies adopted by lecturers in four distinct academic disciplines. It examined the relationship between the way academic staff like to learn and the way they like to teach and the reasons they use the teaching strategies they adopt in lectures. It also examined the relationship between academics' perceptions of their teaching and their students' perceptions…
Beyond the first-year experience
In the face of difficult economic circumstances, increased competition and student diversity, attrition and retention have become issues of great significance to higher education institutions seeking to survive. A large body of work has explored the relationship between attrition and the first‐year experience, but there has been little focus on students' experience of university in subsequent years despite the fact that later year attrition count…
Psychology (3 works) · Evaluation of Teaching Practices (2 works) · Higher education (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Attrition (1 work) · Consistency (knowledge bases) (1 work) · Developmental psychology (1 work) · Dimension (graph theory) (1 work)