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  2. Eleanor J. Gibson - Wikipedia

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    In Eleanor Gibson's final years she was focused on writing and publishing books. Her goal was to illustrate her progression of thinking. Her book titled, "An Odyssey in Learning and Perception" [6] is a collection of her academic papers starting from the 1930s. The book encompasses her 50 years of work toward perceptual learning and development ...

  3. Spacing effect - Wikipedia

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    The encoding variability theory holds that performance on a memory test is determined by the overlap between the available contextual information during the test and the contextual information available during the encoding. [3] According to this view, spaced repetition typically entails some variability in presentation contexts, resulting in a ...

  4. Repetition (Kierkegaard book) - Wikipedia

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    Repetition (Danish: Gjentagelsen) is an 1843 book by Søren Kierkegaard, the book was published under the pseudonym Constantin Constantius to mirror its titular theme. Constantin investigates whether repetition is possible, and the book includes his experiments and his relation to a nameless patient only known as the Young Man. [ 1 ]

  5. Leitner system - Wikipedia

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    For example, if this is session 0, boxes 0-2-5-9, 1-3-6-0, 5-7-0-4, and 8-0-3-7 are done because they all contain the number 0. If a reviewed card isn't successful, it moves back to Deck Current. If a reviewed card is successful and the last number of its box matches the current session number, then that card moves to the Retired Deck.

  6. Rote learning - Wikipedia

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    Rote learning is widely used in the mastery of foundational knowledge.Examples of school topics where rote learning is frequently used include phonics in reading, the periodic table in chemistry, multiplication tables in mathematics, anatomy in medicine, cases or statutes in law, basic formulae in any science, etc.

  7. Learning theory (education) - Wikipedia

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    A classroom in Norway. Learning theory describes how students receive, process, and retain knowledge during learning.Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in how understanding, or a worldview, is acquired or changed and knowledge and skills retained.

  8. Mastery learning - Wikipedia

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    The motivation for mastery learning comes from trying to reduce achievement gaps for students in average school classrooms. During the 1960s John B. Carroll and Benjamin S. Bloom pointed out that, if students are normally distributed with respect to aptitude for a subject and if they are provided uniform instruction (in terms of quality and learning time), then achievement level at completion ...

  9. Philosophy of education - Wikipedia

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    Two key mottos taken from those principles are "Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life" and "Education is the science of relations." She believed that children were born persons and should be respected as such; they should also be taught the Way of the Will and the Way of Reason.