This text describes a study that categorized students into three learning behavior groups:
Avoidance (50%): Thes students do the bare minimum, procrastinate, or get distracted.
Mastery (15%): These students are goal-oriented, have high self-efficacy, and experience less fear and stress.
Moderate (35%): These students fall in between the other two groups,showing average values and perhaps a more flexible approach.
The study also found that these learning profiles were distributed differently across academic fields:
Pedagogy: Had the highest proportion of “Mastery” profiles (over 20%).
Natural Sciences: Had the lowest proportion of “Mastery” profiles (less than 10%).
Medicine: Had the most “Moderate” profiles.
Humanities: Had the most “Avoidance” profiles.
Furthermore, the study linked these profiles too other factors:
Burnout Symptoms: students in the natural sciences and humanities were most likely to experience burnout. Law students were least likely.
Task Orientation and Belonging: These were most pronounced in medicine.
Fear and Stress: Educators reported the least, while humanities scholars reported the most.
* Social Sciences and Economics: Showed predominantly midfield values for these factors.
The authors suggest that these tendencies might be due to self-selection, where students choose subjects they believe align with their learning styles, or that the structure of study itself might influence behavior (e.g., the freer structure of humanities versus the more cohesive structure of medicine).