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As a student, I often felt that the only purpose of studying for my classes was to succeed on a test.  Those types of classes always left me feeling a bit empty in terms of the learning aspect. 

Why? Because most of the time, all I did was study for exams. I never actually did anything with the content. Grant Wiggins (1998) called this an “auditive process,” which essentially uses exams to determine whether students “got it” at the end of a course or unit. The classes where I was able to actually demonstrate how I understood and incorporated information—those were the ones where I felt I had actually learned something.

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