Retention vs. Reproduction -- Adolescent Psychology Applied to Education

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Subject: Retention vs. Reproduction

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Timothy R. Pruitt

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Date Posted: 18:36:14 01/20/08 Sun

Online posting #1 for 1/20/2007

In class we spent a great deal of time discussing Social Cognitive Theory and more specifically the relationship between retention and reproduction or production process as presented in the powerpoint. Ultimately I believe that as a class we decided that retention is what you know and reproduction is how you show what you know.

In attempt to gain a greater understanding of this relationship, I tried to apply it to my experience teaching and coaching. In class I notice that my students have the ability to retain information (i.e. definition for simile, metaphor, or personification), which is, as I understand it, retention. I noticed, however, that they struggled when I later challenged them to create their own similes, metaphors, and personifications, and thus demonstrating their cognitive reproduction of the information.

I know that memorization and recitation are lower levels of Blooms Taxonomy than original creation, but I wonder if or whether cognitive retention and cognitive reproduction operate under different or differing levels of Blooms.

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