Try to recall the numbers one week later. You probably won't be successful because it is difficult to attach personal meaning to abstract numbers. Likewise, business students will have difficulty attaching meaning to what they learn if teachers do not require learning above the knowledge level. Here's an example of knowledge-level learning. In exercise solving, students memorize a procedure or series of steps, to solve exercises that are similar to those presented in class or in the text.
Exercise solving is a form of rote learning.
The student may not understand why or even what he is doing, but he knows that by following these steps he can obtain the correct answer. Although the psychological processes underlying the exercise solving and knowledge learning levels are similar, we have chosen to separate them. This will help to highlight the distinction between exercise solving and problem solving presented later. From a psychological perspective, exercise solving involves recognition and recall. Students must first recognize the type of exercise that the teacher wishes to have solved.