Students' Persistence and Academic Success in a First-Year Professional Bachelor Program: The Influence of Students' Learning Strategies and Academic Motivation

Table 1

Learning strategies and their meaning as conceived in the learning pattern model.

Learning component	Learning dimension	Meaning
Processing strategies	Deep processing
	(i) Relating and structuring	The extent to which students actively relate aspects of the content
	(ii) Critical processing	The extent to which students adopt a critical angle
	Stepwise processing
	(i) Analyzing	The extent to which students methodically process the learning content
	(ii) Memorizing	The extent to which students memorize the learning content
	Concrete processing	The extent to which students attempt to apply the content to concrete situations
	Self regulation	The extent to which students actively steer their own learning process
Regulation strategies	External regulation	The extent to which students rely on teaching staff or the learning material to steer their learning process
	Lack of regulation	Lack of clarity on how to steer their learning process