SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF ADULTS AS LEARNERS 成人学习者的一些特点.pptVIP

CHARACTERISTICS OF ADULTS AS LEARNERS AS COMPARED WITH YOUTH 1. Adults are older. They have lived longer and have a different perspective on life. They no longer see lifethrough rose-colored glasses, but as a set of realities. 2. Adults have had more experience. They have insights and seerelationship not discerned by children. They have a sense of what is likely to work and what is not - sort of accumulated wisdom. 3. Adults have needs which are more concrete and immediate than those of children. They are impatient with long discourses on theory and liketo see theory applied to practical problems. 4. Adults are used to being treated as mature persons and resent having teachers talk down to them. 5. A corollary of four is that adults enjoy having their talents and information made use of in a teaching situation. 6. Adult groups are likely to be more heterogeneous than youth groups. Differences increase with age and mobility. Adults come from a wider variety of backgrounds and intelligence levels than youth. 7. Adults can learn as well as youth; although they may not perform some tasks as rapidly as youth. Adults learn as well as young people. People over the age of 40 have an advantage, when it comes to learning material which calls for good judgement or related to experience. Adults can do “fast memorizing” more efficiently than young children; however, youngsters retain the fact longer. The reasons adults may appear to learn not as well is based on reaction time, not intelligence. If time is not a factor, there is no difference in ability to learn. Does aging have an effect on adult learning? The Correct Answer is C. Contrary to popular opinion, IQ doesn’t decline remarkably with age. A group of 50 year olds were given IQ tests that had taken 31 years earlier. They made higher scores on every part except math reasoning. Wechsler found test scores increased until 35 then declined very slowly after that. The C