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Dalton Retail finds that its trainees prefer to try things out, learn from concrete experience and then reflect afterwards. According to Kolb's learning cycle, which sequence is the correct order of the stages?

The correct sequence is concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualisation and active experimentation. Learners first experience something, reflect on it, form general concepts, then test those ideas in new situations, restarting the cycle.

  1. AConcrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualisation, active experimentationCorrect
  2. BAbstract conceptualisation, concrete experience, active experimentation, reflective observation
  3. CReflective observation, concrete experience, active experimentation, abstract conceptualisation
  4. DActive experimentation, abstract conceptualisation, concrete experience, reflective observation

Explanation

Kolb's cycle runs from concrete experience to reflective observation, then abstract conceptualisation (forming theories), then active experimentation, which leads to new experience. The other sequences break this order.

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