What is it about?
The author provides an clear explanation of how people learn that is geared toward teachers and students. A diagram of human memory is used to highlight key points where learning often goes wrong. The key points are divided into two categories. Choke points are limits in memory that make learning challenging. Pitfalls are common mistakes students make while learning. Possible solutions are offered for each choke point and pitfall.
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Why is it important?
Understanding how people learn helps teachers design more effective lessons and helps students to study more effectively. The diagram described in this article highlights information that teachers need to know to teach more effectively. Teachers in turn can use the diagram to teach students to learn more effectively.
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The purpose of this study is to take a large, complex literature on human learning and then to synthesize and organize it into an accessible and comprehensible form for teachers and students. Not only are key challenges for successful learning highlighted, but possible solutions to each challenge are provided.
Stephen Chew
Samford University
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This page is a summary of: An advance organizer for student learning: Choke points and pitfalls in studying., Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne, November 2021, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/cap0000290.
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