Roteness

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(uncommon) Synonym of rote..

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[…] the psychologically numbing effect of rotely mechanical exercises. The entire Teply system creates a mechanical attitude toward library materials, from the functional descriptiveness of the text to the roteness of the exercises. Students quickly slip into an "automatic pilot" pattern in responding to the exercises, cancelling any of the effective learning potential of the programmed approach.

More recently, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA, 1993) recommended that the most appropriate approach to teaching is a constructivist approach. The NSTA addressed the problem of the lack of meaningful learning in this statement: "the typical U.S. science program discourages real learning not only in its overemphasis on facts, but in its very structure which inhibits students from making important connections between facts" (NSTA, 1993, p. 2). They further state that this roteness of learning deters many students from continuing to study the sciences.

Following the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik, broadly interpreted in the U.S. as leapfrogging both the U.S. space program and American technological prowess generally, the educational establishment began a period of reevaluation. The disciplinary context in which Assimilation Theory developed confronted controversies around the notion of roteness in education. Ausubel believed roteness, and the institutionalized doctrines and methods that foster it, to be the greatest nemesis to learning.

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