How do you feel about: LEARNING

 

1. To what extent do you think you have learnt something at the end of each school year?

2. What have you not learnt that you wished you had during the last few years?

3. To what extent is that the fault of...
   1. your teacher?
   2. Yourself?
   3. Lack of time?
   4. Lack of determination or discipline?
   5. Others?

4. Do you need the presence of other people to help you learn or do you prefer studying on your own?

5. Do you understand things better after you try them out or think them through?

6. Do you tend to...
   1. understand details of a subject but may be fuzzy about its overall structure.
      b. understand the overall structure but may be fuzzy about details.

7. When you am learning something new, does it helps you to talk about it or think about it?

8. If you were a teacher, would you rather teach a course...
   1. that dealt with facts and real life situations?
   2. that dealt with ideas and theories?

9. In a study group working on difficult material, are you more likely to...
   1. jump in and contribute ideas?
   2. sit back and listen?

10. Do you like teachers...
    1. who put a lot of diagrams or words on the board?
    2. who spend a lot of time explaining?

11. When you start a homework problem, are you more likely to...
    1. start working on the solution immediately?
    2. try to fully understand the problem first?

12. Do you learn...
    1. at a fairly regular pace: If I study hard, I'll "get it."
    2. in fits and starts. I'll be totally confused and then suddenly it all "clicks."