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Learning/Study
Preferences
for (S)ensing Law Students
Adapted from Gordon Lawrence,
People Types and Tiger Stripes 43
(1992).
Cognitive Style:
A Sensing law student favors a cognitive style that involves: |
- memory of facts,
- observing specifics,
- processing data step by step,
- starting with the concrete, then moving to abstract,
- being careful and thorough,
- aiming toward soundness of understanding,
- staying connected to practical realities around them, and
- being attentive to what is in the present moment
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Study Style:
A sensing law student favors a study style that involves: |
- a sequential, step by step approach to new material,
- beginning with familiar, solid facts,
- moving gradually toward abstract concepts and principles, and
- approaching abstract principals and concepts by distilling them out
of their own personal, concrete experience.
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Instruction that fits S's:
Sensing law students do their best work with: |
- hands-on labs,
- relevant films and other audiovisual presentations,
- materials that can be handled,
- computer assisted instruction,
- first-hand experience that gives practice in the skills and concepts
to be learned,
- teachers who provide concrete learning experiences first in any learning
sequence, before using the textbook,
- teachers who show them exactly what is expected of them,
- teachers who do not move "too quickly" through material, touching just
the high spot or jumping from thought to thought,
- assignments that do not expect them to generate possibilities not based
on solid facts, and
- Skills and facts they can use in their present lives.
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