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    This document outlines five developmental dimensions of learning: confidence and independence, skills and strategies, knowledge and understanding, use of prior and emerging experience, and reflection. These dimensions are interwoven and represent types of thinking that interact during learning. Considering these dimensions provides a framework for understanding the complex process of learning and helping students learn.

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    This document outlines five developmental dimensions of learning: confidence and independence, skills and strategies, knowledge and understanding, use of prior and emerging experience, and reflection. These dimensions are interwoven and represent types of thinking that interact during learning. Considering these dimensions provides a framework for understanding the complex process of learning and helping students learn.

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    This document outlines five developmental dimensions of learning: confidence and independence, skills and strategies, knowledge and understanding, use of prior and emerging experience, and reflection. These dimensions are interwoven and represent types of thinking that interact during learning. Considering these dimensions provides a framework for understanding the complex process of learning and helping students learn.

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    UNDERSTANDING THE DEVELOPMENTAL DIMENSIONS OF LEARNING

    Confidence and Independence


     We see growth and development

    when learners' confidence and independence become congruent with their actual abilities and skills, content knowledge, use of experience, and reflectiveness about their own learning.

    Skills and Strategies


     Represent the "know-how" aspect of

    learning  performance or mastery - learners have developed skills and strategies to function successfully in certain situations.  often cross disciplinary boundaries

    Knowledge and Understanding

     Refers to the content

    knowledge gained  the most familiar dimension, focusing on the know-what aspect of learning

     answers a wide range of questions

    not only the typical content questions but also the:


    what students are learning about the topics; research methods; the theories,

    concepts, practices of a discipline; the methods of organizing presenting ideas to others, and so on.

    Use of prior and emerging experience


     involves learners' abilities to draw on

    their own experience and connect it to their work  A crucial but often unrecognized dimension of learning is the capacity to make use of prior experience as well as emerging experience in new situations

    Reflection
     refers to the developing awareness of

    the learner's own learning process, as well as more analytical approaches to the subject being studied  refers to the development of the learner's ability to step back and consider a situation critically and analytically, with growing insight into his or her own learning processes, a kind of metacognition

     provides the "big picture" for the

    specific details  Learners need to develop this capability in order to:


    use what they are learning in other contexts, to recognize the limitations or obstacles confronting them in a given situation, to take advantage of their prior knowledge and experience, to strengthen their own performance.

    SUMMARY:
     These five dimensions cannot be separated out and treated individually; rather, they are dynamically interwoven.  They represent types of thinking that interact and that, in fact, may be occurring simultaneously during learning.  Dimensions of Learning offers a way of thinking about the extremely complex process of learning so that we can attend to each aspect and gain insights into how they interact. If it serves this purpose, it will be a useful tool as we attempt to help students learn.

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