Use the research presented in your text to explain how nontraditional-aged college students are different from traditional 18- to 22-year-old college students when it comes to learning
What will be an ideal response?
As the textbook notes, adult learners differ from their younger counterparts in several ways:
- Adults have a higher need to know why they should learn something before undertaking it.
- Adults enter a learning situation with more and different experience on which to build.
- Adults are most willing to learn those things they believe are necessary to deal with real-world problems rather than abstract, hypothetical situations.
- Most adults are more motivated to learn by internal factors (such as self-esteem or personal satisfaction) than by external factors (such as a job promotion or pay raise).
Educators would do well to keep these factors—these different factors—in mind when they have classrooms that include students from different age ranges and life-periods.
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a. eardrum. c. organ of Corti. b. oval window. d. round window.
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