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Study MethodsFour Learning Domains:

Questions to ask yourselfafter a days study

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Four Learning Domains

Four areas in which to improve your learning:

KNOWLEDGE of FACTS

(Information - KNOWING)

UNDERSTANDING of IDEAS(Insight - UNDERSTANDING)

ABILITY to DO

(Performance - DOING) ATTITUDE to LIFE

(Character - BEING)

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Knowing

At the end of a days study ask yourself:

What topics am I more informed

about today than I was yesterday?

What are the six most significantfacts that I have learnt today?

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Understanding

At the end of a days study ask yourself:

What new insights have I gained

today? Which is the mostsignificant?

What wrong / unclear understandingshave been corrected / clarified?

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Ability

At the end of a days study ask yourself:

Is there anything that I can do now

as a result of todays learning that Icould not do before?

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Attitude

At the end of a days study ask yourself:

Has my attitude to something in my

life, or about something else, beenaltered today?

Have I learnt anything that might

change my behaviour?

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Journaling

If you decide to

keep your answers in a note-book,

you will in effect be writinga journal of

your own

mental and spiritual development.

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Studying a Book

This approach to

studying in general

can also be applied tostudying a specific book

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Study as Nourishment

A good book

(as opposed to a textbook,

a guidebook,or a book read for entertainment)

will nourish the mind and soul

in all four areas.(The supreme example is the Bible.)

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Studying for Growth

Read, mark, learn,and inwardly digest

Questions to ask yourself

when studying a book

that you really want to digest.

Note:Only a few books deserve

this kind of attention!

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Studying a Book

Study a few pages only

each day or period of study.

Either

mark your book

(if it is yours!)with colour coding for the four answers

you find in the section.

Orkeep your findings in a small notebook.

Note:

Not everyquestion will produce answers

everytime.

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Knowing

What is the writers main point in thissection?

What interesting information (relevantto life) have I learnt from reading this?

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Understanding

What have I come to understand thatwas not clear to me before?

What is notclear in what I have read?(Where could I get help to clarify this?)

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Doing ( or performing)

What can I possibly do now, afterreflecting on this passage, that I couldnot do previously?

What can I now do better?

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Being (or becoming)

What has challenged me to change myattitude or behaviour?

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Suggested Book for Reflective Study:

The Divine Conspiracy

byDallas Willard

1998

(Jesus Sermon on The Mount)

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