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This study investigated the impact of learner-centered teaching on students' learning skills and strategies. Surveys of 10 teachers and 900 students at a high school found that few students rated themselves as having highly developed learning skills. Classroom observations revealed learner-centered practices were only evident some of the time. The findings suggest more learner-centered approaches should be implemented to help students develop lifelong learning skills. Learner-centered teaching engages students in their learning and helps them take responsibility for and adapt their own learning skills and strategies.

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Research: The Matrix Below

This study investigated the impact of learner-centered teaching on students' learning skills and strategies. Surveys of 10 teachers and 900 students at a high school found that few students rated themselves as having highly developed learning skills. Classroom observations revealed learner-centered practices were only evident some of the time. The findings suggest more learner-centered approaches should be implemented to help students develop lifelong learning skills. Learner-centered teaching engages students in their learning and helps them take responsibility for and adapt their own learning skills and strategies.

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  • Research Problem and Methodology: This section presents the research problem regarding learner-centered psychological principles and describes the methodology used in the study.
  • Findings and Reference: This section outlines the key findings of the study, discusses their implications, and provides bibliographic details of the research source.

RESEARCH

Read a research or study related to Learner-centered psychological principles (LCP). Fill out
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Problem: Research Methodology:

Students become responsible on their own This study was conducted to all English teachers
learning by giving them the chance to explore and and select First Year to Fourth Year high school
be engaged in their own learning process. With this, students. It made use of purposive sampling. There
the study investigated and analyzed the impact of were 10 teachers and 900 students considered as
learner-centered teaching in English classes on respondents of this study. There were three visitations
students’ learning skills and strategies in relation to conducted for each teacher with a total of 30
the extent of implementation of learner-centered classroom observations. The researcher and the Vice
teaching in the classroom. Principal for Academics observed the classes using
the learner-centered teaching checklist. It is composed
of 42 indicators based on Bekele and Melesse’s [1]
study. It made use of the Likert scale highly evident,
evident, less evident and not evident. This instrument
was used to assess the learner-centered teaching
practices in the classroom. The students also rated
their respective English teachers of their observations
on the extent of learner-centered teaching
implemented in the classroom. The instrument was
pilot tested for reliability and validity. It has 15
indicators that contained the learner-centered
checklist patterned after the classroom observation
instrument. With the extent of learner-centered
teaching implemented in the classroom, the study
would also like to determine if this approach helped
students in developing their own learning skills and
strategies. Hence, the researcher-made questionnaire
adapted from Pintrich et al. [5] was used for this
purpose. It is composed of 15 indicators which was
also pilot tested for reliability and validity. It also
made use of the Likert scale where students assessed
and rated themselves whether they very much
practiced, practiced, somewhat practiced or not
practiced the skill or strategy indicated in the research
instrument. In this regard, it was used to evaluate
students’ level on intrinsic goal orientation, cognitive
and metacognitive skills and strategy.
Findings :
It was shown in the survey on the learning Conclusions:
skills and strategies that only a very few have The learner-centered approach is just apt for students
achieved very much practiced or very good rating as to make them learn by doing. It is very important that
evaluated by the students themselves. This implies students are engaged and involved in their learning
that there is still a room of improvement to integrate process so that they can adapt the skills and strategies
more learner-centered teaching approach in the for them to become responsible learners. It is
classroom. It is important that students will develop important that students will develop their learning
their learning skills and strategies because these are skills and strategies because these are life-long
life-long learning skills that they can use not only in learning skills that they can use not only for higher
college but in their future endeavors in life. learning but in their future endeavors in life.
Source: (bibliography entry format)

A. Bekele and K. Melesse, “Enactment of


Student-Centered Approach in Teaching
Mathematics and Natural Sciences: The
Case of Selected General Secondary
How are the findings of this research useful to teachers?
Schools in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia”,
Ethiopian Journal
It will serve them as a source and guide on of
howEducation
they canand
make or improve their modality
Sciences (Vol. 5 No. 2), March 2010, pp.
or ways of teaching, It will also help the teachers to identify the capability of their students in
coping up to their lessons. 29-50,
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