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2. Chapter Overview
What is learning?
How do we learn?
Metacognition – Improving your learning process
Learning is a reinforcement process
Understanding the teaching part of the
teaching/learning process
Mistakes students make
Don’t be hung up on the idea of seeking help
3. What is Learning?
Learning is the process of acquiring:
New knowledge and intellectual skills
(Cognitive learning)
New manual or physical skills
(Psychomotor learning)
New emotional responses, attitudes, and values
(Affective learning)
5. How Do We Learn?
Receiving new knowledge
Processing new knowledge
6. Receiving New Knowledge
What type of information do you prefer?
Sensing learner
Intuitive learner
What sensory channel do you perceive
external information most effectively?
Visual learner
Verbal learner
7. Processing New Knowledge
The way you prefer to process new information
Active learners
Reflective learners
The way you progress toward understanding
Sequential learners
Global learners
8. Index of Learning Styles
Questionnaire
Recommend taking Index of Learning Styles
Questionnaire
www.webtools.ncsu.edu/learningstyles
You’ll choose one of two preferences for 44
items that cover the ways you prefer to receive
and process new knowledge
You’ll immediately receive the scored results
telling you your preferred learning styles
9. Metacognition –
Improve Your Learning
Plan your learning
Monitor your learning
Evaluate your
learning and make
changes
10. 17 Characteristics of
“Expert” Learners
Control the learning process rather than become a victim of
it
Are active, not passive, in their approach to learning
Are motivated (e.g., enjoy learning, have short-term and
long-term goals, etc)
Are disciplined (e.g. have learned good habits and use them
consistently)
Are more aware of themselves as learners (e.g. know their
own strengths and weaknesses)
Initiate opportunities to learn
Set specific learning goals for themselves
Have a larger repertoire of learning strategies from which to
choose
11. More Characteristics of
“Expert” Learners
Know not only what to learn, but how to learn
Plan their approach to learning
Monitor their learning while it’s happening
Are more adaptive because they do self-monitor while
learning
Reflect more upon their own learning
Evaluate the effectiveness of learning approaches and
strategies
Use learning strategies selectively
Tend to attribute failures to correctable causes
Tend to attribute successes to personal competence
12. Learning is a
Reinforcement Process
When What To Do
Before class Prepare for the lecture by reviewing notes, reading text,
attempting a few problems, formulating some questions
During class Attend lecture, concentrate intently, take detailed notes,
ask questions
After class, but before next
class meeting
Review and annotate notes, reread text, work assigned
problems, work extra problems, meet with a study partner
or study group to go over material and problems
In preparation for test or
exam
Review notes, review text, rework problems, meet with a
study partner or study group to go over material and
problems
In preparation for final
exam
Review notes, reread text, rework problems, meet with a
study partner or study group to go over material and
problems
14. Overview of the Teaching Process
Teaching modes
Large lectures
Small lectures
Recitations
One-on-one
tutoring
15. Characteristics of Teaching Modes
Each involves a person who is knowledgeable
about a subject (an “expert,” if you will)
communicating what he or she knows to a less
knowledgeable person (the student)
Generally, most of the communication is one-
way—i.e., from the teacher to the student
Relatively little learning takes place
16. Five Aspects of Teaching Styles
Note: Teaching styles most prevalent in math/science/engineering courses are underlined
1. What type of information is emphasized?
Concrete – Facts, data, observable phenomena
Abstract – Principles, concepts, theories, mathematical models
2. What mode of presentation is stressed?
Visual – Pictures, diagrams, films, demonstrations
Verbal – Spoken works, written words
3. How is the presentation organized?
Deductive – Start with fundamentals; proceed to applications
Inductive – Start with applications; proceed to fundamentals
17. Five Aspects of Teaching Styles
(continued)
4. What mode of student participation is facilitated?
Active – Student involved (talking, moving, reflecting,
solving problems)
Passive – Student as a spectator (watch, listen)
5. What type of perspective is provided on the information
presented?
Sequential – Step by step progression
Global – Content and relevance are provided
18. Important Questions Related to the
Way Your Professors Teach
What value is it to me to
understand how my professors
teach?
What if the way I prefer to learn
differs from the way I am taught?
Why don’t my professors use a
variety of teaching styles?
19. Active Learning in Classrooms
Active learning strategies:
– Interactive lecture/group work
– Problem-based learning
– Inquiry guided learning
– Team Based Learning
– etc.
Participate in active learning opportunities
Benefits to you are better performance on
exams, improved critical thinking skills and
problem-solving abilities
20. Pitfalls to Avoid
Common Pitfalls Strategies to Avoid Them
Assume engineering study will be like
high school.
Work to understand and adjust to the
differences between high school and college-
level engineering study.
Program yourself for failure through
too many commitments.
Create a life situation that enables you to
devote adequate time and energy to your
studies.
Spend little time on campus. Immerse yourself in the academic environment
of the institution.
Neglect studying. Schedule study time. Devote significant time
and energy to studying.
Delay studying until test is announced. Master the material presented in each class
prior to next class.
Study 100% alone. Study collaboratively with other students.
21. Pitfalls to Avoid (continued)
Common Pitfalls Strategies to Avoid Them
Come to each lecture unprepared. Review notes, read text, and attempt problems
prior to each lecture.
Avoid professors. Interact regularly with professors outside the
classroom.
Cut classes and/or don’t get the most
out of lectures.
Attend classes and practice good listening skills.
Ask questions in class.
Fail to take notes or take notes but fail
to use the notes properly in the
learning process.
Take effective notes and use a systematic
learning methodology to study from notes.
Skim over the material in an assigned
chapter in a rush to get to the assigned
homework problems.
Use reading for comprehension methodology
(see Section 5.1) to understand the general
concepts thoroughly before attempting
problems.
Fail to solve assigned problems. Don’t
approach problems using a systematic
problem solving method.
Solve not only assigned problems but extra
problems; use systematic problem solving
methods.
22. Don’t Be Hung Up on the
Idea of Seeking Help
If I have seen a little further, it
is by standing on the
shoulders of Giants - Isaac
Newton
Primary sources of “help” with your
academic work
Your peers
Your professors
23. Key Finding
Students who get the most out of college, who
grow the most academically, and who are the
happiest, organize their time to include
interpersonal activities with faculty members, or
with fellow students, built around substantive
academic work.
Harvard Assessment Seminars
24. Group Discussion - Differences Between
Engineering Study and High School
In your group, brainstorm a list of the major
differences between the teaching/learning
process you experienced in high school and the
teaching/learning process you will encounter in
university-level math/science/engineering study.
Once you have a list of differences, discuss
strategies for adjusting to each item on the list.
Appoint a leader to keep the discussion on topic and a recorder to
write down and report what was learned
25. Alternate Group Discussion Topic -
Importance of Items in “Academic Skills
Survey”
In your group, discuss the importance of each of
the 16 items in the “Academic Skills Survey” on
pages 109-110 of Studying Engineering.
Develop a consensus as to the five most
important skills for success in
math/science/engineering coursework.
Appoint a leader to keep the discussion on topic and a recorder to
write down and report what was learned.