Learning type
Definition
Types of knowledge and learning are very different. The autor(s) of this article believe that Pedagogical Strategies must be adapted to learning types (plus other parameters ....).
One also may claim that various Learning Theories are strongly influenced by what kinds of learning was studied ...
Types of learning
One way to categorize learning are these broad categories, somewhat inspired from [TIP]
- Attitudes
- Disposition or tendency to respond positively or negatively ....
- Factual Information (Memorization):
- Processing of factual information and remembering .....
- Concept Learning (Discrimination):
- ... how to discriminate and categorize things. It is not related to simple recall and must be constructed.
- Reasoning (Inference, Deduction):
- thinking activities that involve making or testing inferences
- Procedure Learning:
- .... being able to solve a certain task by applying a procedure.
- Problem solving:
- identification of subgoals, use of methods to satisfy subgoals.
- Learning Strategies:
- can hardly be taught and only be learned and to some extent only !
In education, Blooms taxonomy of educational objectives is still the reference regarding detailed competencies that can be achieved through learning, i.e. that can be related to demonstrated skills (outcome-illustrating verbs). Firstly he distinguised among 3 broad categories:
- the Cognitive Domain
- the Affective Domain
- the Psychomotor Domain
Within the Cognitive Domain, Bloom defines 6 levels of intellectual behavior that are important for learning:
Examples in use
- Bloom's Taxonomy for Corrosion Training]
- This page shows how to apply Bloom's taxonomy to training levels in an engineering program.
Links
- [Kearsley's TIP] Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database
- This is one of the best sources on Learning Theory.
- [Bloom's Taxonomy]
- [Learning Domains or Bloom's Taxonomy]
- [Major Categories in the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Bloom 1956) ]
References
- Bloom Benjamin S. and David R. Krathwohl. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals, by a committee of college and university examiners. Handbook I: Cognitive Domain. New York, Longmans, Green, 1956. ISBN 0582280109