Learning Process

Part I -   Read the following situation and answer the questions.  (10 Marks)   Around the dawn of the twentieth century, the new field of educational psychology emerged and became a defining force for the scientific study of learning, teaching, and assessment (Berliner & Calfee, 1996; Gage & Berliner, 1998; Woolfolk, 2001). A learning theory is a coherent framework and set of integrated constructs and principles that describe, explain, or predict how people learn. Rather than offering a single theory of learning, educational psychology provides alternative theories and perspectives on how learning occurs and what motivates people to learn and change (Bigge & Shermis,1992; Hilgard & Bower, 1966; Hill, 1990).   Q1: What are the five (5) major learning theories? Q2:What are the principal constructs of each of the five learning theories? Q3: How are the terms education, teaching, and instruction different from but interdependent with one another? Q4: How has teaching been a part of the professional nurse’s role? Q5: How are barriers to education different from obstacles to learning?     Part II - Read and discuss the following statement (10 Marks)   You have been assigned as nurse educator for class NUR 589 at KSU. As any educator, before you start assignment you must know your students and what content you must deliver to them. You knew that the education process is a systematic, sequential, planned course of action consisting of two major interdependent operations, teaching and learning. In addition, learning needs can be defined as gaps in the knowledge that exist between a desired level of performance and the actual level of performance. In general, you understand that evaluation is a systematic process by which the worth or value of something is judged.   In light of the introductory statement, discuss with delineation what you should do and how to prepare for your class. Starting with the fires step of need assessment to final step of evaluation.