How Learning Works

Seven Principles

The 7 principles are:

• Students' prior knowledge can help or hinder learning.
• How students organize knowledge influences how they learn and apply what they know.
• Students' motivation determines, directs, and sustains what they do to learn.
• To develop mastery, students must acquire component skills, practice integrating them, and know when to apply what they have learned.
• Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback enhances the quality of student's learning.
• Students' current level of development interacts with the social, emotional, and intellectual climate of the course to impact learning.
• To become self-directed learners, students must learn to monitor and adjust their approaches to learning. (Ambrose, et. al., 2010, p. 4-6)
  

Another version of the same thing

Close read: Principles of Learning and Their Implications (by Peter Hill)

1. Effort Produces Achievement
2. Learning Is About Making Connections
3. We Learn With and Through Others
4. Learning Takes Time
5. Motivation Matters