What's the difference between learner and student?

Learner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who learns; a scholar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.
  • (2) This study examined the extent to which normal learners identified as cognitively rigid could use alternate strategies when instructed to do so.
  • (3) Children not only are fast learners and anxious to acquire new skills but also are at risk for the development of dental health problems.
  • (4) But under current funding arrangements, part-time learners (about 39% of the student population) are not eligible for grants and loans.
  • (5) Some providers, including both schools and colleges, misguidedly retain learners in unsuitable provision or try to duplicate provision in schools that is better delivered in further education colleges or work-based learning providers."
  • (6) Commonly there is a desire by girl learners to continue their education , especially their formal education, despite their pregnancy even when the barriers to returning to school imposed by their families or schools and social stigmas may not easily permit it.
  • (7) The program must be problem-centered, affording the learners the opportunities to engage in the discovery of the role of nutrition in the health of people, the nutritional environment, and the interplay between the two.
  • (8) It is only very recently that studies of distance learners have begun to consider gender as a variable.
  • (9) The first attempt to apply the problem-based learning approach to written material for use by an individual learner in the absence of a tutor led to a trial in Ghana, Kenya and Pakistan to compare a conventionally designed module with a problem-based learning module on the same topic for their respective acceptability, effectiveness and efficiency.
  • (10) This study provides external validation for the classification of disabled learners according to patterns of academic achievement, demonstrating a useful procedure for dealing with the intrasubject variability characteristic of disabled learners.
  • (11) Repeat training sessions that take into account affective dimensions as well as the diverse needs of adult learners are recommended.
  • (12) This study involves 413 learners (student and pupil nurses) training in the general nursing field.
  • (13) Findings in the studies related to the characteristics of the patient as learner support the following variables as significant for a theory of instruction: demographic characteristics including age, race, duration and type of illness, educational level, and family preparedness.
  • (14) Boydell's Scale for Measuring the Learner-Centredness of a Course was administered to a non-random sample of all 172 third-year students at three schools of nursing.
  • (15) Reflecting on Kushner’s lack of immediate experience, the veteran US Middle East peace negotiator Dennis Ross told the Jerusalem Post last week that Kushner would need to be a quick learner.
  • (16) The teachable moment is the time when a learner is ready to accept new information for use conceptually or in practice.
  • (17) Analysis of the data showed the ward sister to be aware of her training function and her responsibility towards the student nurse as learner.
  • (18) Results of previous research, experience in planning, observations of the planning processes of others and discussions with expert continuing medical educators show that planning is a dynamic process of suggesting and selecting from many alternatives those instructional activities with the greatest potential for effecting the desired changes in learners.
  • (19) Previous research has demonstrated that the typical dental school graduate has attributes similar to the concrete sequential learner.
  • (20) Educational technology provides the link between teaching and learning; it should accommodate the essential interactions between learner, instructor, environment and material.

Student


Definition:

  • (n.) A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student.
  • (n.) One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
  • (2) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
  • (3) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
  • (4) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
  • (5) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
  • (6) Its articulation with content and process, the teaching strategies and learning outcomes for both students and faculty are discussed.
  • (7) We describe both the three supportive psychotherapeutic steps, which may last months to years including subsequent dynamically psychotherapeutic strategies as well as the reactions of the auxiliary therapist function on the students.
  • (8) The purposes of this study were to assess the career development needs of entering medical students as measured by the Medical Career Development Inventory and to examine gender differences in responses to the inventory.
  • (9) (2) A close correlation between the obesity index and serum GPT was recognized by elevation of the standard partial regression coefficient of serum GPT to obesity index and that of obesity index to serum GPT when the data from all 617 students was analysed in one group.
  • (10) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
  • (11) After an introductory training program, the students asked the patients arriving at the hospital out-patient clinic for permission to observe them throughout the attendance given.
  • (12) Data from 579 medical students from the classes of 1979-80 through 1983-84 attending a midwestern medical college were analyzed via moderated multiple regression.
  • (13) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.
  • (14) Students are assigned to tutorial groups, and much of the educational thrust of the program is built upon interactions within these groups.
  • (15) The ratio of male:female students admitted has fallen from 3.4:1 in 1968 to 1.4:1 in 1987.
  • (16) Unsuccessful problem solutions revealed two patterns of students performances.
  • (17) This longitudinal study compares the accuracy of self-assessments of 22 students across four examinations during their first 2 years of medical school.
  • (18) There are many factors influencing these students to start smoking.
  • (19) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
  • (20) This goal seems to have been met as indicated by an evaluation received from the students, since 58.3 percent believed they better understood the role of the technologist and clinical laboratory in patient care.