This study explored factors that influence academic achievement and hence, future career prospects. The relationships between the factors, academic trait boredom, approach to learning and academic achievement were examined using data collected from university students at a small English university and from their student records. The initial statistical analysis revealed significant effects of gender on learning approach and two of the three academic trait boredom subscales. Female students proved to be less prone to academic trait boredom than their male counterparts. A model was then developed that showed how a student’s choice of learning approach was influenced by academic trait boredom and impinged on academic achievement. This modelling also confirmed that students who are more prone to academic trait boredom are also more likely to adopt a surface approach to learning rather than a deep or strategic one. The results of this investigation have implications for students, lecturers, course designers and learning support staff both here in this one location as well as elsewhere across the higher education sector.

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学业乏味、学习方式与大学成绩的关系

本研究探讨了影响学业成就以及未来职业前景的因素。使用从一所小型英国大学的大学生及其学生记录收集的数据，研究了这些因素、学术特质无聊、学习方法和学业成就之间的关系。最初的统计分析揭示了性别对学习方法和三个学术特质无聊分量表中的两个的显着影响。事实证明，女学生比男学生更不容易对学术特质感到厌烦。然后开发了一个模型，该模型显示学生对学习方法的选择如何受到学术特质无聊的影响并影响学业成绩。该模型还证实，更容易对学术特质感到厌烦的学生也更有可能采用表面学习方法，而不是深入或战略性的学习方法。这项调查的结果对这里以及整个高等教育部门的其他地方的学生、讲师、课程设计者和学习支持人员都有影响。