PowerPoint Presentation - For the Record: The Misinterpretation of Edgar Dale’s Cone of Experience

Let’s Sum it Up

•We Remember:

•5% Lecture

•10% What we read

•15% What we see

•20% Audio-Visual

•20% What we see and hear

•20% What we hear

•26% What we hear

•30% What we see

•30% Passive Verbal

•30% Demonstration

•40% What we discuss

•50% Visual Receiving

•50% See and hear

•50% Discussion Group

•70% Discuss with others

•70% Active Receiving and Participating

•70% Say

•70% Say and Write

•70% Say or Write

•70% Say as they talk

•75% Practice by Doing

•80% Experience Personally

•80% What we experience directly or practice doing

•90% Say as they do a thing

•90% Say and perform a task

•90% Teach to others/Immediate Use

•90% What we attempt to teach others

•95% of what we teach someone else

14 Sources:(and counting)

Wiman and Mierhenry, 1969

Wiman and Mierhenry, 1960

Glasser, 1990

Standard Oil of NY

Socony-Vacuum Oil Company

Dale and Nyland, 1985

Bruce Nyland, 2000

Bruce Nyland, 1950’s

Nyland/Dole, 1972

Dale Edgar

NTL Institute

James Stice, 1984 Seminar

Gustafson, 1985

Brady, 1989