8. Students learn better when they have some control of their classroom time and the ways they learn:.

Students need to be actively involved in making decisions and modifications to their learning efforts. Let students have some control of the learning process - topics, activities, use of social time - choices increase a student's sense of ownership over their learning

Students also need to play an active role in the assessment and evaluation process, including clearly understanding and applying the evaluation criteria for which they are responsible.

The major contributor to theories of how adults learn is Malcolm Knowles. He developed guiding principles of andragogy', 'the art and science of adult learning', based on assumptions about how adults learn. His research discovered that adults learn best when learning is:

o active             

o self-directed          

o based on problems       

o related to their experience    

o perceived as relevant to their needs

o intrinsically motivated