Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 370.1523
EAN: 9780309070362
ISBN: 0309070368
Label: National Academies Press
Manufacturer: National Academies Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 374
Publication Date: September 15, 2000
Publisher: National Academies Press
Sales Rank: 1484
Studio: National Academies Press

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
(National Research Council) Text is a result of work of two committees of the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National Research Council. Original volume, c1999, was a product of a 2-year study conducted by the Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning. Expands on the findings, conclusion, and research agenda of the original volume. Softcover.




Rating: - textbook
This is my textbook for my first masters in education class book. It's exciting, and I totally love it! Fun for the curious-minded and scientific-minded as well.

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Rating: - Great overview for educators.
This is a nice book on the important topics related to how people learn. It serves as an introductory text from which you can gather relevant references on the issues that are of the most interest to you.

The copy I bought at Amazon was defective, though. It was missing more than 20 pages!! But after I contacted the publisher, they quickly sent me a replacement book with no charge at all. (I did not try to contact Amazon for fear that the whole Amazon stock is defective in the same ... Read More

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Rating: - What all teachers should know
The tome "How Learners Learn" is what your worthless education courses SHOULD have been teaching you, but didn't because the politicians and the professors would rather push their agendas. If the teacher is to actually teach--convey information from one human to another--then the teacher must know how humans acquire information. That's what this book goes into. Oddly, that is also what outfits such as the federal department of education never go into.

Read this book; buy it if you must, ... Read More

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Rating: - Succinct and practical
The beauty of this volume is that it takes a vast quantity of research on how people learn and organizes it in a way which is readable, practical and accessible for educators. The authors distill the findings of numerous studies into three key principles of learning: (1) Teachers must work with student preconceptions and prior knowledge, (2) Teachers must teach in depth, providing multiple examples of the same concept and (3) Teachers must help students develop metacognitive skills so that they can take ... Read More

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Rating: - How people learn
If you are going to be a teacher, this is a great book to read. Detailed and easy to read, it helps prepare you for what to expect and what will be expected of you as a teacher. It makes it easy to understand how children learn and what are the best teaching strategies to use to teach them as individuals.

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