Question

What is the most essential factor for success of students learning?
1. Readiness of learner
2. Teacher's teaching
3. Difficulty of content
4. Classroom interaction

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Readiness of learner

The most essential factor for the success of students' learning is motivation or readiness to learn.

Learning: It is the process of acquiring new knowledge, behaviours, skills, attitudes, values, and understand preferences.

• According to Skinner, learning is a progressive behaviour of adoption.
• Learning is simply a process of acquiring knowledge or modify knowledge or skill or behaviour.
• It a physical process to bring changes in capacity for performance

Factors that influence learning:

• Physical factors: physical factors such as the physical setting, classroom environment, infrastructure, noise-free environment, comfortability, etc.
• Mental factors: motivation, readiness to learn, attitude and behaviour, etc.  
• Physiological factors: health, well-being, cleanliness, fitness, etc.
• The instructor is a factor: the personality of the teacher, teaching skill, affection towards students, communication skills, etc.
• The personal quality of learner: intelligence, communication skill, good memory, regularity, etc.
• External factors: outside inference, outside noise, political influence, local events, culture, society, etc.

This is a progressive behaviour for the success of students' learning are as follows,

• Motivation: It is the positive behaviour to acquire a skill or knowledge, Motivation can be two types

  • Intrinsic motivation: It comes from deep within the mind, i.e. readiness to learn, love for learning, like a subject
  • Extrinsic motivation: It comes from outside influences, i.e. appreciation by the teacher, motivational speech of a topper, parents' motivation, 
• The readiness of learner: It is a positive attitude of the learner. It is also known as the will power of the learner that develops a strong intrinsic motivation.
• Learning ability: Intelligence, aptitude, creativity, etc. are considered as learning abilities of a learner.
• Level of achievement: Academic achievements, rewards, etc. helps to develop a positive attitude towards  the learning
• Physical health: Some defects like blindness, deafness, paralysis, etc. act as a barrier to learning
• Mental health: Mental health is very important for the effectiveness of learning. Depression, anxiety, stress, etc. obstruct the success as a learner
• Maturity level: Experience and maturation is another factor for success. Everything that you want to learn, take a certain time. 

 

Explanation: Among the factors stated in the question, the most important one is the readiness to learn for the success of students learning. Teachers teaching and classroom interactions are additional factors, and difficulty of content sometimes act as the negative factor of the learning.