Time intervals, spacing, and a little daydreaming thrown in

Clark Quinn writes about some research studies he recently stumbled across. The first, by Hal Pashler, is about the time intervals necessary for successful learning. The study implies that single-event workshops for training are “likely to be extremely inefficient, at least for remembering factual information.” On the same topic, he points to Will Thalheimer’s work on spacing learning out. Also, by Jonathan Schooler, a study about daydreaming. Clark notes that the research suggests that “people who engage in more daydreaming score higher on experimental measures of creativity, which require people to make a set of unusual connections.” (JC)

Thinking & Learning | Learnlets | Clark Quinn |19 December 2008

Tagged as: Instructional Design, research