The Learning Quotient (TLQ) provides a practical and objective way to indicate how learners view a lesson and its instruction. TLQ is an arrangement of empirical experimental behavioral science descriptions of how people learn. Behavioral scientists have reported that people learn through trial-and-error during a lesson until they identify the variable required to do what a lesson asks they to do.
TLQ indicates how closely lessons and instruction fit steps people take during these trials. Lessons planned and instruction offered based on The Instruction Cube (TIC) will likely yield a high TLQ.
To obtain a TLQ for a lesson or instructor, observers identify where and how which behavioral science descriptions are used in lesson plans, instruction, and evaluation of learning from lessons.
TLQ complements the Learning Efficiency Scale (LES).
Related Resources
- The Learning Quotient (TLQ) Lecture Notes
- Learning
- A Learners’ View
- The Learning Efficiency Scale
Related Reading
Heiny, R. (2010). Lesson Planning and Instruction by Design or as Decoration: A Learners’ View.