Using Challenging Concepts To Learn Promotes Understanding Of New Material
Monday, December 1, 2008 - 12:49
in Mathematics & Economics
Although conventional wisdom suggests that the best way to learn a difficult skill is to progress from easier problems to more difficult ones, research examining this issue has resulted in mixed outcomes. Psychologists wanted to pinpoint the best strategies for learning new information and found that the effects of the different training methods depended on the type of categories that the participants were learning.