Glossary of Effective Learning
- Active listening: Paying full attention, engaging, and responding to the speaker to improve comprehension.
- Analysis: Breaking down complex concepts into smaller components for better understanding.
- Brainstorming: Generating a wide range of ideas and solutions to address a problem.
- Chunking: Organizing information into manageable, meaningful units.
- Cognitive load: The amount of mental effort required to process information.
- Collaboration: Working together with others to achieve a shared goal.
- Comprehension: The ability to understand and interpret information.
- Concentration: Focusing attention on a specific task or activity.
- Cornell Method: A note-taking system that divides the page into three sections for notes, cues, and summaries.
- Critical thinking: Evaluating and analyzing information objectively to form a reasoned judgment.
- Decision Matrix: A tool for evaluating and ranking potential solutions based on specific criteria.
- Delegation: Assigning responsibility for a task or decision to another person.
- Elaboration: Expanding on ideas by adding details, examples, or explanations.
- Evaluation: Assessing the credibility and relevance of information.
- Feedback: Information about performance, used to improve future actions or decisions.
- Goal setting: Defining specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) objectives.
- Growth mindset: The belief that abilities and intelligence can be developed through dedication and hard work.
- Inference: Drawing conclusions based on evidence and reasoning.
- Journaling: Writing down thoughts, experiences, and insights for self-reflection.
- Kinesthetic learning: Learning through physical activities and hands-on experiences.
- Learning curve: The rate at which a person acquires new knowledge or skills.
- Learning style: An individual's preferred method of acquiring and processing information.
- Metacognition: Awareness and understanding of one's thought processes.
- Mind mapping: Creating visual diagrams to represent relationships between concepts.
- Mnemonics: Memory aids, such as acronyms or rhymes, that help retain information.
- Motivation: The desire and willingness to learn and achieve goals.
- Note-taking: Recording information during a lecture or presentation for later review.
- Outlining: Organizing notes using headings and bullet points.
- Peer feedback: Input from classmates, friends, or mentors to improve performance.
- Pomodoro Technique: A time management method that involves working in 25-minute intervals followed by a 5-minute break.
- Prioritization: Ranking tasks based on their importance and urgency.
- Problem-solving: Identifying and overcoming challenges to achieve a goal.
- Reflection: Examining one's thoughts, experiences, and actions to learn and grow.
- Repetition: Repeating information or practicing a skill to improve retention and performance.
- Resilience: The ability to recover from setbacks and adapt to new situations.
- Retrieval practice: Recalling information from memory to improve retention.
- Root Cause Analysis: Identifying the underlying cause of a problem.
- Scheduling: Allocating time for specific tasks and activities.
- Self-assessment: Evaluating one's own performance and progress.
- Self-directed learning: Taking responsibility for one's own learning process and progress.
- Self-questioning: Asking oneself questions about the learning process and progress.
- Spaced repetition: Reviewing information at increasing intervals to improve retention.
- Study group: A group of learners who meet regularly to discuss and review course material.
- Synthesis: Combining ideas to form a new perspective or understanding.
- Time management: Organizing and prioritizing tasks to optimize time and productivity.
- Trial and error: Learning through experimentation and making adjustments based on outcomes.
- Verbal learning: Learning through listening to or reading information.
- Visual learning: Learning through observing images, diagrams, or videos.
- Visualization: Creating mental images to represent concepts or ideas.
- Working memory: The part of short-term memory responsible for processing and manipulating information.
- Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD): The range of tasks that a learner can complete with assistance, but not independently.
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