Career
He is particularly known for identifying the characteristics of, and influences on, deep and surface approaches to learning, and developing the Approaches to Studying Inventory (Applied Science International) <Entwistle & Ramsden, 1983> and the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST) <Entwistle, McCune & Tait, 2013>. He also developed, with Ference Marton, the idea of "knowledge objects" as structured understandings developed by students as they prepare for exams or writing essays <Entwistle & Marton, 1994>. Entwistle was formerly editor of the British Journal of Education Psychology and also of the international journal Higher Education.
He has published many articles in academic journals related to both educational psychology and teaching and learning in higher education, as well as several books including Styles of Learning and Teaching (1981), Understanding Student Learning (1983), Understanding Classroom Learning (1987), and Teaching for Understanding at University (2009).