Haughton's Learning Channels

Haughton suggested that we receive and send information in a number of formats, which he called "channels." This conceptualization can help you design your study activities, since you should practice receiving and sending information in the same channels as you will be required to do when you are being evaluated. For example, if you are going to receive a written exam, which will require you to write answers, then you should practice reading written questions and instructions, and writing answers. If you are going to have to view specimens, and talk about them, then you should practice doing this.

Receive Channel

input, stimulation, context, situation

• See
• Hear
• Touch
• Smell
• Feel
• Think

Send Channel

output, response, action, behavior

• Say
• Type
• Write
• Pick
• Point to
• Draw
• Manipulate
• Think

When you analyze your exams according to these channels, you can make a grid with the Receive Channels across the top, and the Send Channels down the side, and mark off the appropriate cells, for each type of question you will have to practice.