How learning works: seven research-based principles for smart teaching

In this volume, the authors introduce seven general principles of learning, distilled from the research literature, as well as 27 years of experience working one-on-one with faculty. They have drawn on research from a breadth of perspectives (cognitive, developmental, and social psychology; educational research; anthropology; demographics; organizational behavior), to identify a set of key principles underlying learning--from how effective organization enhances retrieval and use of information to what impacts motivation. The seven principles are: 1. Students prior knowledge can help or hinder learning. 2. How students organize knowledge influences how they learn and apply what they know. 3. Students motivation determines, directs, and sustains what they do to learn. 4.To develop mastery, students must acquire component skills, practice integrating them, and know when to apply what they have learned. 5. Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback enhances the quality of students learning.6. Students current level of development interacts with the social, emotional, and intellectual climate of the course to impact learning. 7. To become self-directed learners, students must learn to monitor and adjust their approachesto learning.Susan A. Ambrose is associate provost for Education, director of the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, and teaching professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. Michael W. Bridges is a visiting scholar at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon. Michele DiPietro is associate director for Graduate Programs at the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and instructor in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon. Marsha C. Lovett is associate director for Faculty Development at the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and associate teaching professor in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon. Marie K. Norman is a teaching consultant and research associate at the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, and adjunct professor ofAnthropology in the History Department at Carnegie Mellon. The Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence at Carnegie Mellon University was created in 1982 witha mission to distill the research on learning for faculty and graduate students and collaborate with them to design and implement meaningful educational experiences. The Centers work is based on the idea that combining the science and art of teaching empowers college faculty to create the conditions for students to learn and, through this learning, transform their world.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-48410-4
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Tela
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 26/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés