The Revised Inventory of Learning Processes: A Multifaceted Perspective on Individual Differences in Learning

Abstract

(from the introduction) deals with the subtle manifestation of individuality in the ways students approach learning / describe the development history of the Inventory of Learning Processes (ILP) and discuss substantive and methodological improvements in its recently revised version / discuss underlying assumptions about the conceptual and behavioral stability of individual differences in learning with special emphasis on the role self-concept plays in the development of a viable learning style (from the chapter) Study 1 / Ss were undergraduate college students representing different majors at a large midwestern university / [Ss] took the ILP-Revised in small group sessions and were subsequently interviewed Study 2 / Ss were 70 undergraduate students enrolled in a 400-level individual differences course in psychology / responses were divided into high and low self-concept groups / scale scores for different instruments were intercorrelated separately for both groups (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)