How do we define "learning"? What makes one claim that he/she has learnt something new? What is a measure of learning? It is not IQ metric. It is not the level of diploma/degree or certifications. In some academic sense, it may appear to be the ability to remember and reproduce a fact, passing a test, being eligible of a diploma/degree. However, most of the learning happens outside the class rooms of academic institutions. According to "manu" (that's me!), there can be different manifestations of learning such as:
- ability to recognize the problem, its class, and relevant attributes
- ability to answer questions related to the topic
- ability to solve a problem that he/she couldn't do beforehand
- improvement in the performance of solving a problem
- interpreting fact(s)/data in different ways based on different contexts
- ability to analyze and establish/contradict the truth of a matter
Although the above can be (a partial set of) different facets of learning, it is even more complex to come up with a proper yard stick to measure the level of learning.
May be the "ability to establish/contradict the truth of the matter or proposition or statement" sums up the "level of learnedness" . need to ponder more on this .....
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