What is
understanding/misunderstanding?
§Real knowledge involves using learning in new ways (transfer)
§It symbolizes not one achievement but several and is revealed through diverse performances and products
§It is not immediate, not a “get it or you don’t,”
but a matter or degree.
§It implies the ability to escape a
naïve or inexperienced point of
view.
§“Well-intentioned” students can take away lessons that their teacher never intended.
§Even the best students, who appear to understand material, later reveal significant misunderstanding of what they learned.