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Your Expectations and Goals

Effective adult learning begins by aligning the learner's expectations and learning goals with the material to be presented. Now that you have read the introduction to this article, what are your expectations; what do you hope to gain from this experience? Learning goals are frequently classified into knowledge goals - what you expect to know when you finish - and performance or skill goals - what you expect to be able to do when you finish.

Exercise 1:   Please record your goals for this article in the fields below. At the end we will redisplay them and allow you to judge if we - together - have achieved them.
Knowledge Goals
(Example: Understand the differences
in how adults and children learn.)

1.
2.
3. 		   
Performance Goals
(Example: Be able to write
good engagement exercises.)

1.
2.
3.


(Although we don't require that you participate in the exer-
cises in order to read this article, we hope you will do so.)
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