My present job requires that I learn to identify the good learners from the poor ones. It’s a bit difficult to train new hires when they don’t know any of the basics. It’s a good thing I found a snippet of what the qualities of good versus poor learners are:

* Good learners are able to identify the best strategy for a specific task; poor learners have difficulty choosing the best strategy for a specific task
* Good learners are flexible in their approach and adopt a different strategy if the first one doesn’t work; poor learners have a limited variety of strategies in their repertoires and stay with the first strategy they have chosen even when it doesn’t work
* Good learners have confidence in their learning ability; poor learners lack confidence in their learning ability
* Good learners expect to succeed, fulfill their expectation, and become more motivated; poor learners: expect to do poorly, fulfill their expectation, and lose motivation

I got this from NCLRC.org which educates people on language. Some of the learning strategies described on the site can also be applied to learning in general. Although language learning is more aural than visual.

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