How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching (The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)

by RichardE.Mayer (Foreword), SusanA.Ambrose (Author), Marie K . Norman (Author), Marsha C . Lovett (Author), Michele Di Pietro (Author), Michael W . Bridges (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $21.63

  Distilling the research literature and translating the scientific approach into language relevant to a college or university teacher, this book introduces seven general principles of how students learn. The authors have drawn on research from a breadth of perspectives (cognitive, developmental, and social psychology; educational research; anthropology; demographics; organizational behavior) to identify a set of key principles underlying learning, from how effective organization enhances retrieval and use of information to what impacts motivation. Integrating theory with real-classroom examples in practice, this book helps faculty to apply cognitive science advances to improve their own teaching.