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Interleaving Enhances Learning: A Possible Geometric Explanation

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: In the traditional approach to learning, if we want students to learn how to solve different types of problems, we first teach them how to solve problems of the first type, then how to solve problems of the second type, etc. It turns out that we can speed up learning if we interleave problems of different types. In particular, it has bene empirically shown that interleaving problems of four different types leads to a double speed-up. In this paper, we provide a possible geometric explanation for this empirical fact.

Source: scholarworks - UTEP (The University of Texas at El Paso)

Authors: Octavio Lerma, Olga Kosheleva, Владик Крейнович

Institution: The University of Texas at El Paso

Language: English

Topic: Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation

Awards: CREST-Cyber-ShARE Center of Excellence: A Center for the Sharing of Cyber-Resource to Advance Science and Education, UBM-Institutional: Undergraduate Training in Bioinformatics, CREST Phase II: Cyber-ShARE Center of Excellence