First Iron Law: Students learn only a small fraction of what they're taught.
Second Iron Law: Students remember only a small fraction of what they learn.
Third Iron Law: Most of the lessons students remember lack practical applications.
Fourth Iron Law: Even when students remember something with practical applications, they still usually fail to apply what they know... unless you explicitly tell them to do so.
Friday, December 29, 2017
Four Probabilities of Pedagogy
From The Iron Laws of Pedagogy by Bryan Caplan. I am not sure that these are actually Iron Laws. More like the default norms of education. Maybe even more aptly, The Four Probabilities of Pedagogy.
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