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Student Involvement
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| The amount of pysical and psychological energy that a student devotes to the academic experience. |
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Students learn by attending lectures, doing readings, working in library.
Popular among professors.
Limitation: students play PASSIVE role in learning process |
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If adequate resources are brought together in one place, student learning and development will occur.
Fave among administrators and policy makers
Limitations: Resources are finite. Focus is too heavy on accumulation of resources instead of their use or deployment |
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identify the curricular content and instructional methods that best meet the needs of the individual student.
e.g. self paced instruction
Limitation: expensive becasue each student requires individualized attention. Difficult to define with precision because it can be so varied in practice
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em·pir·i·cal
1.derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
2. depending upon experience or observation alone, without using scientific method or theory, especially as in medicine.
3. provable or verifiable by experience or experiment.
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