How learning works: seven research-based principles for smart teaching
Publication details: Wiley, 2010. San Francisco:Description: 301 p.; ill.; 23 cmISBN:- 9780470484104
- 371.102 AMB
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371.04092 MAR Open classroom: a journey through education | 371.077082 BOR Madrasas and the making of lslamic womanhood | 371.100820954 KOT Uneasy translations: self, experience and Indian literature | 371.102 AMB How learning works: | 371.102 ASH Truth about teaching: an evidence-informed guide for new teachers | 371.102 COL Developing effective student peer mentoring programs: | 371.102 DEW Scholarship of teaching and learning |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Any conversation about effective teaching must begin with a consideration of how students learn. However, instructors may find a gap between resources that focus on the technical research on learning and those that provide practical classroom strategies. How Learning Works provides the bridge for such a gap. In this volume, the authors introduce seven general principles of learning, distilled from the research literature as well as from twenty-seven years of experience working one-on-one with college faculty. They have drawn on research from a breadth of perspectives (cognitive, developmental, and social psychology; educational research; anthropology; demographics; and 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. These principles provide instructors with an understanding of student learning that can help them see why certain teaching approaches are or are not supporting student learning, generate or refine teaching approaches and strategies that more effectively foster student learning in specific contexts, and transfer and apply these principles to new courses. For anyone who wants to improve his or her students' learning, it is crucial to understand how that learning works and how to best foster it. This vital resource is grounded in learning theory and based on research evidence, while being easy to understand and apply to college teaching.
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