6 THE HUMAN ORGANISM
6D) LEARNING
In recent years, research on student views of the nature of the learning process has received increased attention. Several techniques for improving student knowledge of the learning process have been devised. Examples include encouraging students to construct concept maps (Novak & Gowin, 1984), to think about what they have learned and how they have learned it, and to document their learning in diaries. Students' ideas about learning appear to resist change (Baird & Mitchell, 1986), but long-term interventions can improve their knowledge of the learning process and their learning behavior (Baird, Fensham, Gunstone & White, 1989).