Learning and Performance

Learning and Performance

From our childhood, we are led into believing that performance is the result of learning because performance affects learning in positive manner. Even our traditional education system has been actively devised on this concept. As our thinking methodology is influenced by thinking, our performance is the outcome of learning. But apart from what we think, there are times when learning influences performance in an undesirable manner.

Relative Distinction

You need to make your mind when you develop your learning strategy. This is basically the main delirium of this article. First of all you need to choose between performance and learning goals.

Performance Goals:

Performance goals are shot-term objectives set for specific duties or task in your current position. They help you to know what is expected from you in current position. With these goals your priority is to get good marks, avoid unfavorable judgments, out-perform others and avoid being perceived as incompetent. Listed below are few personal performance goals:

1. Embrace empathy
2. Confidence
3. Listen actively
4. Make fear your friend
5. Improve your body language
6. Get along with others
7. Get along with yourself
8. Stop procrastinating
9. Become more proactive
10. Let go off the past
11. Become a conflict resolver
12. Read more. Read often
13. Become more resilient
14. Start stress management
15. Ignore your limitations
16. Increase your will power
17. Become more mindful

When you emphasis performance goals, it is likely that you will try to avoid challenges unless you are certain of success. Try to be smart because a goal without a plan is just a wish.

Smart 

Measurable

Achievable

Realistic

Timely

Learning Goals

Learning goals are the backbone of a lesson or a concept because it provides the reason for learning and teaching it. This usually begins from your specific selection of a subject, lesson, topics or a lecture. Articulating the learning goals of your course is essential for delivering and assessing it. In broader terms, I will merely define education goals for learners. These the statements that describe the competence, attributes and skills must possessed by a student at the end of a course, program, class or a practical. These are specific statements intended for students attainment of a skill or what I like to call a miracle for survival. Learning goal is the heart of assessment of learning and definitely needs to be made at planning stage. Now this is where I quote martin Luther King,

"The purpose of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of education."

Now outlined is the classification of learning goals through cognitive process involved
in minds of our learners,

1. Knowledge
2. Comprehension
3. Application
4. Analysis
5. Synthesis
6. Evaluation
7. Remember
8. Understand
9. Apply
10. Analyze
11. Create

Now some extra tips to ensure that you are on the right track

• Align learning assessment with your learning objectives
• Remember to use specific and familiar terms while writing your goals
• Make sure to specify learning and performance goals via distinguished objectives
• Try to ask yourself if your learning objectives are achievable and comparable to performance goals
• Organize them in sub-categories to make them shorter and simply applicable to your satisfaction criterion