How Learning Happens Quotes

“Whether or not a student retains what (s)he has learnt depends upon how deeply the student has processed it.”
― Paul A. Kirschner, How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice

“how the material is processed is more important than the student’s intention to learn. What this means is that the fact that a student who deliberately prepares for a test but neglects deep processing of the material won’t do as well as one who engages in deep processing, even if (s)he isn’t deliberately trying to learn”
― Paul A. Kirschner, How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice