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EDPE6011: Learning and Individual Differences
2025 unit information
This unit examiners major areas of individual differences among learners and ways in which educational provision may be adapted to accommodate these differences in helping each student to achieve major learning outcomes. Consideration will be given to areas of cognitive and personality differences, learning styles, and gender differences. Particular attention will be given to implications of research which (a) explores aptitude-treatment interactions, (b) elucidates the mediating processes involved in adaptive provisions and (c) evaluates outcomes of major forms of provision for individual differences.
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| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate an understanding of some of the theories surrounding learning and individual differences
- LO2. reflect on the constructed nature of your current beliefs about the differences between learners and to consider the potentials for change
- LO3. align theories of learning and individual differences with teaching and learning practices and assessment
- LO4. demonstrate knowledge of students’ different approaches to learning
- LO5. derive educational implications and applications from the theory and research presented in the unit
- LO6. demonstrate competence in oral and written communication skills.
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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