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Levels of Learning: Getting from what to why

From Knowing to Understanding

Knowledge

• Kindergarden-3rd

• Rote Memorization

• What we learn this way can stick forever, but

• We lose 85% of this information within 21 days

  • who

  • what

  • when

  • where

  • how many

  • which

  • match

  • define

  • recite

  • recognize

Comprehension

• Kindergarden-3rd

• Able to explain what happened

• Demonstrate understanding of information by interpreting it

  • explain in your own words

  • summarize

  • compare

  • contrast

  • discuss

  • distinguish

  • why – cause & effect

Application

• 1st-5th

• Apply what they learn to a new situation

• Problem-solving

• Abstraction

  • what would happen if?

  • choose the best answer

  • explain

  • predict

  • judge between

  • why - motive

Analysis

• 5th – Middle School

• Take a situation apart and identify components

• See each element’s affect on the others

• Understand structure

• Determine bias

• Identify reasoning

• identify

• what’s the main theme of..

• what influence or affect did that have?

• distinguish fact from opinion

• whose point of view is that?

• what’s the motive?

• how was that done?

• what does that imply?

Synthesis

• High School

• Combine information to create something new

• Not original to man, but to the student

• Creativity essential

• Establishing pattern and structure on their own

  • make

  • do

  • test

  • tell

  • write

  • design

  • plan

  • how else would you..

  • make rules for…

  • solve this problem…

Evaluation

• High School

• Make judgments and reach conclusions

• Compare information to standards and determine its value

• Judge sound reasoning

  • defend

  • critique

  • is this reasoning deceptive?

  • which is more logical?

  • which is appropriate?

  • is this consistent?

Applying the Levels

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