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- Students' prior knowledge can help or hinder learning.
- How students organize knowledge influences how they learn and how they apply what they know.
- Student motivation determines, directs, and sustains what they do to learn.
- To develop mastery, students must acquire component skills, practice integrating them, and know when to apply what they have learned.
- Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback enhances the quality of students’ learning.
- Students’ current level of development interacts with the social, emotional, and intellectual climate of the course to impact learning.
- To become self-directed learners, students must learn to monitor and adjust their approaches to learning.
Adapted from How Learning Works: Seven Research?-Based Principles for Smart Teaching (2010, Ambrose et al.)
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