Cottrell Scholars Collaborative
New Faculty Workshops in Chemistry
2013
Know your enemy students
A quick guide to how a lot of college-age people learn
College Student Development
complexity
Perry s nine stages of development in four categories
age
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College Student Development is Variable
Perry (men)
Belenky, et al., (women)
Dualism
Received knowledge
Multiplicity
Subjective knowledge
Relativism
Procedural knowledge
Contextual Relativism
Constructed knowledge
complexity
Bloom s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
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A Revisionist Taxonomy
But seriously, how does this affect your life?
Will a dualist (received knowledge) student be able to
perform a complex evaluation of new, abstract ideas?
Why can t my student give me an answer when asked a
direct question?
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How will this help you to teach better?
Learning objectives
Outcomes
Assessment
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