This volunteer can assist students who are working on diagnostic seatwork while interviews are taking place. The key questions adult education or literacy instructors should ask students are ones that will help improve instruction and meet the specific needs of each student. These questions lay the foundation for student-teacher partnerships. They need to understand how a perceptual, memory, attention, or language problem could interfere with learning. Because learning 'is multi-dimensional, it is important to understand the relationships between these areas and how they function with each other to enable the adult student to learn a given task.
General information gives an overall picture of an individual.
It suggests a beginning point. By helping students set individual, realistic goals and by determining specific realistic instructional objectives, instructors should be able to plan a program that specifically meets the needs of each student. This continual monitoring is critical in a diagnostic-prescriptive approach. Monitoring provides valuable information on how a student individually inputs and outputs information, the rate and amount of input that's appropriate, and how information is organized and presented. These observations can be used to adjust learning tasks for each student.