Learning Strategies
Framework for Analyzing the Teaching-Learning Process
|
Teacher
Characteristics
What the teacher knows |
Learner
Characteristics
What the learner knows |
Teaching Strategy
What the teacher does during teaching |
Learning Strategy
What the learner does during learning |
Encoding
Process
How information is processed |
Learning
Outcome
What is learned |
Performance
How learning is evaluated |
Table 11.1 from Weinstein & Mayer (1986, in Handbook
of Research on Teaching, 3rd Ed., p. 316)
Learning Strategies
- Basic Rehearsal Strategies
- Repeating the names of items in an ordered list like the
order of the planets in the solar system.
- Complex Rehearsal Strategies
- Used when the to be learned material is prose, such as a
lesson from a science textbook
- Repeating the material aloud (i.e., shadowing)
- Copying the material
- Taking verbatim notes
- Underlining important parts of the material
- Basic Elaboration Strategies
- Complex Elaboration Strategies
- Basic Organizational Strategies
- Complex Organizational Strategies
- Comprehension Monitoring Strategies
- Affective and Motivational Strategies
The Encoding Process
- Selection
- Acquisition
- Construction
- Integration