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Making Things Hard On Yourself, But In A Good Way: Creating Desirable Difficulties To Enhance Learning

Date: May 28 2020

Summary: Practical discussion about how to introduce desirable learning difficulties into your learning patterns.

Keywords: ##bibliography ##finish #performance #storage #strength #difficulty #desirable #learning #archive

Bibliography

E. L. Bjork, R. A. Bjork, and others, "Making things hard on yourself, but in a good way: Creating desirable difficulties to enhance learning," Psychology and the real world: Essays illustrating fundamental contributions to society, vol. 2, no. 59–68, 2011.

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  1. How To Cite
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  3. Discussion:

Performance is a quantifiable metric that is observed in teaching or practice.

Performance is not a valid metric to determine if learning is occuring.

Storage strength defines how interassociated a representation of memory is to relevant experiences (such as knowledge or skills).

Learning is the idea of creating permanent changes in one's understanding or knowledge regarding a particular subject.

Factors that quickly improve retrieval strength are different from those that improve storage strength. If learners mistake retrieval strength as storage strength, a learner could mistakenly be led to believe that situations which improve retrieval strength could improve storage strength.

How To Cite

Zelko, Jacob. Making Things Hard On Yourself, But In A Good Way: Creating Desirable Difficulties To Enhance Learning. https://jacobzelko.com/05282020164557-desirable-difficulties. May 28 2020.

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