Learning Process: Learning Readiness

Emphasize the stages of intellectual psychomotor, emotional and maturity development as well as zone of proximal development of pupils

Learning readiness refers to internal situations of an individual who is ready and capable to learn and acquire a certain new experiences in learning.

Factors influencing readiness

Suggestions to help students to achieve optimum transfer of learning during learning activities:

Avoid unnecessary learning, since it does not foster transfer.

Use materials that make relationships clear.

Provide meaningful learning experiences that build students' confidence in their ability to transfer learning.

Physiological, psychological, hereditary, environmental condition, levels of maturity, cognitive maturity, social maturity, interest and attitude, internal motivation and basic skills and existed experiences.

Transfer of learning

Student may be aided by things learned previously.

It is sometimes apparent that previous learning interferes with the current learning task.

Types of learning transfer

Positive

Negative

Zero

Types of Readiness

Cognitive

Related to stages of intellectual development, thinking, reasoning, analysing, synthesizing and evaluating

Affective

Psychomotor

Refers to potential or physical maturity to execute a certain physical action in a new learning process.

Refers to individual’s attitude, desire, spirit, diligence, feeling and interest to carry learning activity.