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Factors Affecting Learning

There are many factors that can affect learning, both positively and negatively. Some key facilitating factors include motivation, readiness, mental ability, physical development, meaningful subject matter, and active teaching methods. Other factors like intent to learn, distributed practice, whole-to-part learning, feedback on progress, and applying what is learned can also promote learning. Teachers aim to optimize these facilitating factors and improve learning conditions through tools, feedback, and proper guidance of students.

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Factors Affecting Learning

There are many factors that can affect learning, both positively and negatively. Some key facilitating factors include motivation, readiness, mental ability, physical development, meaningful subject matter, and active teaching methods. Other factors like intent to learn, distributed practice, whole-to-part learning, feedback on progress, and applying what is learned can also promote learning. Teachers aim to optimize these facilitating factors and improve learning conditions through tools, feedback, and proper guidance of students.

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Factors affecting learning There are factors that facilitate learning; for example, readiness, motivation, mental set

mental health and teacher's personality. So the factors that affect learning are: 1. Motivation Motivation is at the heart of learning. It is sine qua non for learning. It arouses, sustains, directs and determines the intensity of learning effort. 2. Maturation It ma es speedy learning possi!le. The child "ho is physically and mentally mature learns a su!#ect at a faster rate. 3. Physical and Mental Development The child affects learning. The child "ho is mentally and physically not developed learns at a slo"er rate. 4. $ome %onditions and School &nvironment affect learning. 5. 'cademic '!ility of the Teacher 'ffects learning. 6. Meaningfulness of Su!#ect(matter ma es learning easier. ). Teaching Methods It facilitates learning children learn more !y activity or !y doing or !y *lay "ay. Then there are factors that ma e learning easy. Such factors that tend to promote learning are intent to learn, distri!uted effort over learning, capitali+ing "hole and part learning, no"ledge of progress, recitation, active recall, application of "hat is learned and activity. To ma e these factors that facilitate learning more effectively, "e "or have to improve learningconditions !y giving audio(visual aids, !y giving praise and reprimand, !y arousing rivalry and cooperation and !y guiding children properly. ntent to !earn The child learns "hat he intends to learn. ,hen there is intent or purpose to learn one learns rapidly and that learning is permanent. ,hen children no" "hat goals they are to achieve, and "hen they accept those goals, they !ecome more active in the pursuit of those goals. The efforts they ma e are more intensive and !etter organi+ed. The attention they play is more definitely focused to the thing they are required to learn. Such learning is intentional or purposeful.

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