learning principles

1. Students’ prior knowledge can help or hinder learning. MORE >
2. How students organize knowledge influences how they learn and apply what they know. MORE >
3. Students’ motivation determines, directs, and sustains what they do to learn. MORE >
4. To develop mastery, students must acquire component skills, practice integrating them, and know when to apply what they have learned. MORE >
5. Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback enhances the quality of students’ learning. MORE >
6. Students’ current level of development interacts with the social, emotional, and intellectual climate of the course to impact learning. MORE >
7. To become self-directed learners, students must learn to monitor and adjust their approaches to learning. MORE >