Difference between revisions of "Strength"

From LearnLab
Jump to: navigation, search
 
Line 3: Line 3:
 
[[Category:Glossary]]
 
[[Category:Glossary]]
 
[[Category:Learning Process]]
 
[[Category:Learning Process]]
[[Category:PSLC General]]
+
[[Category:Refinement and Fluency]]

Revision as of 16:28, 12 February 2007

The strength of a knowledge component is a continuous metric how well it has been learned. As a knowledge component strengthens, it will be become faster to retrieve and yield increased fluency, more likely to yield long-term retention, require less cognitive demand and thus yield more automaticity leave more cognitive headroom for learning other, often more complex, knowledge components.