LEARNING RETENTION RATE
Original research done by
Edgar Dale shows that the effectiveness of learning
or the learning retention rate based on the learning experiences and the media that
was used for the instruction is shown in the following table (Dale’s
cone -pdf,gif). From Dale's research, additional studies were performed
by the
National Training Laboratory Institute for Applied Behavioral Science and many
other universities researchers.
|
Teaching Method |
Knowledge Retention |
|
See/Hear - Lecture |
5% |
|
Reading |
10% |
|
Audio Visual / Video |
20% |
|
Demonstration |
30% |
|
Discussion Group |
50% |
|
Practice by Doing |
75% |
|
Teaching Others |
90% |
|
Immediate application of learning in a real situation |
90% |