Overlooked Factors Influencing Students' Knowledge Levels

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There are factors associated with a person’s level of knowledge such as education, contacts, good work habits etc. These factors may also determine the student’s level of knowledge and whether it is knowledge-based, emotive-based or action-based. Some of these factors may greatly affect the person’s personal growth. While some may not affect the person greatly which causes observers to overlook these factors. Culture and language are two of the factors that are commonly overlooked, when acknowledging the reasons why students attain such level of knowledge. The purpose of acknowledging one’s level of knowledge is for him to be able to evaluate himself and help him achieve the higher level of knowledge. This study will be relevant to students …show more content…

The culture associated with the language is what affects the person. If a language is very different from your own, it may give you some insight into another culture and another way of life. Culture affects the person’s acquisition of knowledge. Values and tradition may limit the person in acquiring the higher level of knowledge. For a person who was raised with a rich culture, acquisition of knowledge for him is an everyday task. A person with a rich culture is capable of remembering, which is the most basic level of knowledge. Furthermore, he can also be capable of understanding, the second level of knowledge, given that the rich culture can aide him into understanding what needs to be understood. He can also be capable of applying the knowledge he had acquired in his rich culture to solve problems he has to face. A rich culture may also lead him to be capable of analyzing, the fourth level of knowledge. He will be capable of breaking information into pieces and putting them back altogether again to form a whole idea. With a rich culture and right judgement, evaluating, the fifth level of knowledge, would have to be an easy task for him. Lastly, a rich culture can aide a person in creating or synthesizing which is the last and highest level of knowledge. A rich culture may aide a person in synthesizing when its culture itself can be a basis of creating new

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