Feature focusing

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Feature focusing is a kind of instructional treatment that involves instruction that focuses the learner's attention on valid cues or features should lead to more robust learning than unfocused instruction or instruction that focuses on less valid cues or features.

Focusing instruction may help students to learn knowledge components with higher feature validity.

Focusing may also result in students spending more time during a learning event on a particular knowledge component and thus increase its strength.