Online Interactive Learning Format
EDUX 6285 (F, G, H) DIMENSIONS OF LEARNING: THE BASICS
Course Description
EDUX 6285 (1-3 Units available). This 2nd Edition course is a research-based instructional
framework that proposes learning involves a complex system of interactive processes with five
types of thinking, each represented by one dimension in Marzano’s Dimensions of Learning
model. In this course, the dimensions will be described and strategies for employing them will
be provided through examples and useful planning tools. Participants will discover that each
dimension does not function independently of the others. There is a constant flow between and
among the dimensions, as students gain knowledge, practice skills, and complete tasks that
require complex reasoning. Finally, an explanation of how performance assessment tasks can
be designed using the Dimensions of Learning model will be offered, and participants will have
the opportunity to tie all the pieces together as they develop performance tasks for a unit of
instruction.
Course Objectives
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Understand how attitudes and perceptions about learning affect students'
dispositions regarding classroom climate and classroom tasks.
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Propose solutions to increase the promotion of positive attitudes and perceptions in
a classroom situation.
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Understand the way knowledge can be organized to increase students' acquisition
and integration of knowledge.
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Develop strategies for helping students acquire and integrate declarative and
procedural knowledge.
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Identify strategies for explicitly teaching students complex reasoning skills and
processes.
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Differentiate the eight thinking processes that help students extend and refine
knowledge.
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Examine processes that help students use declarative and procedural knowledge
meaningfully.
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Develop tasks that employ extending and refining knowledge and that use
knowledge meaningfully.
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Understand how productive habits of mind serve as a backdrop to learning and
support lifelong learning.
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Propose strategies for fostering productive habits of mind in students.
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Understand how and why Dimensions of Learning is an effective model to use when
designing performance tasks that assess student knowledge.
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Design a performance assessment task using the Dimensions of Learning model.