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Tiny Leaps, Big Changes

Gregg Clunis

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we look at the effects of learning for examination vs learning to teach.

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Abstract

"This study tested whether students who learned with an active orientation would be more intrinsically motivated to learn and would learn more than students who learned with a passive orientation. The active orientation was created by having subjects learn material with the expectation of teaching it to another student; the passive orientation was created by having subjects learn the same material with the expectation of being tested on it. The results indicate that subjects who learned in order to teach were more intrinsically motivated, had higher conceptual learning scores, and perceived themselves to be more actively engaged with the environment than subjects who learned in order to be examined."

How to use this in your own life

When you need to learn something new for work or for your own life, find someone who is willing to support you and schedule a teaching session with them . Create the expectation that they will ask questions throughout the session.
This will allow you to learn the topic with the additional pressure of needing to explain it to others. That pressure can lead to the motivation required to dive deeper into topics and ask better questions yourself.

The Study

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00028312021004755

Transcript

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0:00.0	In this is tiny leaves, Big Change.
0:22.0	Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps, Big Changes, where share simple strategies you can use to get more out of your life.
0:27.4	My name is Greg Klunis and in this episode I want to look at a study by Edward L. Desi and Carl a Benware on the, so the title of the study
0:41.0	is Quality of Learning within Active versus Passive Motivational
0:44.8	set. Now I do want to give the disclaimer. This study is from 1984, so quite a long time ago,
0:52.0	but it is an interesting finding that I think we all sort of know, but I think in this episode what we can do is try to take the findings from this study and figure out how we can apply
1:04.9	to how we learn things in our day-to-day lives. So this should be a super good
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