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The study is carried out to find the best and the most effective way to help students
learning how to learn. Researcher will have to gather information through various studies
done in school and university. On top of that, this research is also done to identify what are
the actual problem faced by teachers and learners when learning how to learn. The result of
this research will be greatly beneficial for the teachers and student alike to come out with one
solution and conclusion of what is the best learning approach of learning how to learn.
Hopefully the result of this research will be very helpful to help students learn. To have and
practice the best learning how to learn method is indeed very helpful for teachers as well as
the students.
the concepts of the topic presented or taught. Facts and principles presented frequently are
not related to any kind of experience that is familiar with the learner.
In the United States, the practice of promoting courses in thinking skills is viewed as
counterproductive. It does not help much in improving the teaching-learning process in
school and it also burdening as the existing school curriculum is already a crowded one.
1.3 OBJECTIVES
The main objective of the research being carried is to study the most effective way to
helping students learn how to learn. The researcher gathers the information of how the
learners learn in school and in university, Cornell University specifically.
The second objective of the research is to design new instruction for classroom
learning. The researcher will be focusing more on induce more concern on understanding the
concepts and concept relationship instead of just studying for the sake of sitting for exams.
Finally the last objective of this research is to study the change in childrens
conceptual understanding of the particulate nature of matter over the twelve years span of
schooling.
The research is carried out to find the best and most effective of helping students
learning how to learn. The study has been carried out based on previous researchers findings
on the same concern. It is conducted among learners in two different levels which are in
school and university. The method of learning used by the students in learning, ways to teach
them how to learn, as well as the obstacles faced to teach them how to learn is being studied
by the researcher.
METHODOLOGY
In the article Helping Students Learn How To Learn by Joseph Novak, Novak was
trying to figure out why students are not able to study efficiently and how to help them to
understand and learns a subject better.
According to this article, in many semesters of him teaching in [if Im not mistaken in
Cornell University (1974)], several students said that they have trouble understanding even
grasp what their lecturers was teaching. Due to this, Novak came up with several solutions
that hopefully help the students to learn better. One of his many ways of learning and the
most known until today was the mind-maping/concept maps or the Vee heuristic.
Novak wants the students not only to memorize but also to think about what they have
learn. Concept maps or Vee heuristic is a concept where learners will need to derive or
construct new meanings out of the topics that they have learnt. Novak claimed it is simpler
and learners will not only understand what they have learnt but also developed a profound
way to increase their memory capacity.
Novaks concern was to not only help them to learn but also to take charge of their wn
meaning making, by all means to make sure that the students knows hows to use and
improvise the concept maps.
He managed to get some students to carry out his experiment, which is; he explained
how to make and use a concept map. He made the students to draw a concept map anyhow
they can out of their understanding of any topics in school. From the concept map they had
drawn, Novak asks the students to explain and identify anything that they did not understand
or any flaw they could find from the concept map. Basically he wants to know whether his
idea of teaching students how to learn thru concept mapping is working or otherwise.
CONCLUSION
Towards the end, we can see Novaks technique of learning how to learn succeeds
until now. The method not only used by learners but also teachers to help the learners to learn
and understand what they learn. The researcher believes that the use of concept maps and the
Vee heuristic represent promising alternatives in helping these learners. Although there many
other methods to aid learners learning to learn, Novaks method does proof its efficiency as
learners favours his method. Hopefully this method will still be helpful to teacher and
learners in the near future.
ASSIGNMENT 3