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Chapter 2 Outline and Learning Goals
In this chapter you will learn to
Analyze your learning style
Develop an action plan
Understand instructors’ teaching styles
Understand instructors’ expectations
Use active learning skills
Explain and illustrate critical thinking
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Analyze Your Learning Style
• Learning Style Questionnaire
• Interpreting Your Scores
Learning Goals
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Develop an Action Plan
• Developing Strategies to Overcome Limitations
• Several Words of Caution
Learning Goals
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Understand Instructors’ Teaching Styles
• Comparing Learning and Teaching Style
• Auditory-Visual
• Applied-Conceptual
• Spatial-Verbal
• Social-Independent
• Creative-Pragmatic
Learning Goals
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Understand Instructors’ Expectations
• Take Responsibility for Your Own Learning
• Focus on Concepts
• Focus on Ideas, Not “Right Answers”
• Evaluate New Ideas
• Explore Ideas Using a Journal
Learning Goals
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Use Active Learning Skills
• Active Versus Passive Learning
• Active Learning Strategies
Learning Goals
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Explain and Illustrate Critical Thinking
• Levels of Thinking
• Using Levels of Thinking
Learning Goals
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Explain and Illustrate Critical Thinking
• Levels of Thinking
• Remembering: memorization
• Understanding: comprehension
• Applying: applying to a new situation information that you have
memorized and understood
• Analyzing: examining what you have learned, studying
relationships
• Evaluating: making judgments
• Creating: putting ideas together to form something new
Learning Goals
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Explain and Illustrate Critical Thinking
• Using Levels of Thinking
• Analyzing, evaluating, and creating involve critical thinking.
Learning Goals
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Let’s Review!
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What part of the Learning Style Questionnaire
indicates whether you learn better by listening or
by seeing?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Auditory/Visual.
Social/Independent.
Spatial/Verbal.
Applied/Conceptual.
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What part of the Learning Style Questionnaire
indicates whether you learn better by listening or
by seeing?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Auditory/Visual.
Social/Independent.
Spatial/Verbal.
Applied/Conceptual.
Analyze Your Learning Style
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What is the most important reason to
identify your learning style?
a. To avoid assignments that do not suit your
learning style.
b. To accept your learning style as fixed and
unchanging.
c. To make the most of your strengths and improve
areas of weakness.
d. To determine which subjects and instructors you
should avoid.
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What is the most important reason to
identify your learning style?
a. To avoid assignments that do not suit your
learning style.
b. To accept your learning style as fixed and
unchanging.
c. To make the most of your strengths and improve
areas of weakness.
d. To determine which subjects and instructors you
should avoid.
Develop an Action Plan
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What teaching style best describes an instructor
who focuses on ideas, rules, and theories?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Applied.
Conceptual.
Spatial.
Social.
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What teaching style best describes an instructor
who focuses on ideas, rules, and theories?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Applied.
Conceptual.
Spatial.
Social.
Understand Instructors’ Teaching Styles
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What is one way that learning in college
differs from high school?
a. College instructors spend more time reviewing
course content.
b. Weekly class time in college is much longer than
in high school.
c. College students are expected to take
responsibility for their own learning.
d. Most of the focus of college learning is on the
memorization of facts.
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What is one way that learning in college
differs from high school?
a. College instructors spend more time reviewing
course content.
b. Weekly class time in college is much longer than
in high school.
c. College students are expected to take
responsibility for their own learning.
d. Most of the focus of college learning is on the
memorization of facts.
Understand Instructors’ Expectations
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Which of the following does not characterize
an active learner?
a. Writing down everything an instructor says in a
class lecture.
b. Considering the purpose behind an assignment.
c. Connecting background knowledge and
experience to course material.
d. Predicting questions that might appear on an
exam.
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Which of the following does not characterize
an active learner?
a. Writing down everything an instructor says in a
class lecture.
b. Considering the purpose behind an assignment.
c. Connecting background knowledge and
experience to course material.
d. Predicting questions that might appear on an
exam.
Use Active Learning Skills
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What would your score on the Creative/Pragmatic
part of the Learning Style Questionnaire reveal?
a. Your ability to work with spatial relationships.
b. Your preferred level of interaction with other
people in the learning process.
c. The sensory mode you prefer when processing
information.
d. The approach you prefer to take toward learning
tasks.
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What would your score on the Creative/Pragmatic
part of the Learning Style Questionnaire reveal?
a. Your ability to work with spatial relationships.
b. Your preferred level of interaction with other
people in the learning process.
c. The sensory mode you prefer when processing
information.
d. The approach you prefer to take toward learning
tasks.
Analyze Your Learning Style
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What is an example of an assignment at
the creating level of thinking?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Explain a mathematical law.
Memorize the structure of the human eye.
Compose an original poem.
Compare two stories by the same writer.
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What is an example of an assignment at
the creating level of thinking?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Explain a mathematical law.
Memorize the structure of the human eye.
Compose an original poem.
Compare two stories by the same writer.
Explain and Illustrate Critical Thinking
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What is an example of an assignment at
the applying level of thinking?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Design a website.
Define a list of marketing terms.
Memorize dates for a history exam.
Use a formula to solve a statistics problem.
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What is an example of an assignment at
the applying level of thinking?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Design a website.
Define a list of marketing terms.
Memorize dates for a history exam.
Use a formula to solve a statistics problem.
Explain and Illustrate Critical Thinking
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Which of the following levels of thinking
does not involve critical thinking?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Analyzing.
Understanding.
Evaluating.
Creating.
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Which of the following levels of thinking
does not involve critical thinking?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Analyzing.
Understanding.
Evaluating.
Creating.
Explain and Illustrate Critical Thinking
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