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Any conversation about effective teaching must begin with a consideration of how students learn. However, instructors may find a gap between resources that focus on the technical research on learning and those that provide practical classroom strategies. How Learning Works provides the bridge for such a gap. In this volume, the authors introduce seven general principles of learning, distilled...

This research does not mean, however, that greater frequency of feedback is always better. Again, timeliness of the feedback is a significant factor. For example, consider a study in which college students were learning to write mathematical functions in a spreadsheet application (Mathan & Koedinger, 2005). The particular goal for students’ learning in this situation was not only that they be able to write these functions accurately but also that they be able to recognize and fix their own errors.
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