What Do We Really Want Students to Learn?.

Mason, John

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Publication Date: 1984

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What Do We Really Want Students to Learn?

Mason, John

Teaching at a Distance, n25 p4-11 Fall 1984

Questions drawn from Britain's Open University's examinations illustrate the cognitive processes fundamental to making meaning from information, an important objective of education. It is concluded that education must encourage and assist students in drawing generalizations, distinguishing the particular from the general, and understanding the peculiarities of specializing and generalizing. (MSE)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Curriculum, Distance Education, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Open Universities, Student Participation, Test Items

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