The Relation between Prospective Teachers’ Beliefs and Conceptions of Learning and their Academic Performance

In order to highlight students’ conception of learning in correlation with their learning approaches, we have applied the questionnaire “Approach to Learning and Study Skills Inventory” (ALSSI) developed by Entwistle and Ramsden in 1981 to pre-service teachers. Self-assessment in achieving high results is in close connection to students’ conceptions of learning. If students get a high score using deep approach or strategic approach, then it is likely for them to estimate high performance in that subject. The higher the students’ scores in surface approach to learning are, the better they will estimate poor results in pedagogical disciplines.