Categories with example answers

f (%)

1) Storing existing knowledge: Learning is seen as absorption, intake of knowledge, or simply storing

“Learning is acquiring new information.”

29 (35%)

2) Assimilation: Learning is viewed as assimilating new knowledge into a pre-existing framework or interpreting knowledge within an existing framework. “Learning is intaking new information that transforms and expands existing structures of knowledge.”

36 (43%)

3) Change or reorganization takes place: Learning is seen as changing thinking or reorganizing knowledge; Learning is an interplay between assimilation and accommodation. “Learning is understanding, observing and acquiring new information connecting things and acting in new ways.”

18 (22%)

4) Construction of new knowledge: Learning is seen as changing/reorganizing plus constructing new knowledge, knowledge structures, or new ideas.

0 (0%)