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Tag Archives: Sweller
Germane load: The right kind of mental effort?
Despite our vast capacity to hold information in long term memory; our working memory is extremely limited and becomes overloaded very easily. Greater insight into these problems and some practical ideas about what to do about them comes from the … Continue reading
Posted in Psychology for teachers
Tagged Bjork, Cognitive load, Craik, Levels of processing, Sweller
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Evidence into Practice 