In a new study by Wilson, R.C., Shenhav, A., Straccia, M. et al. they have found a sweet spot, where the learning is neither too easy nor too difficult. This sweet spot is when the student fails about 15% at the time.
It also ties in to a book we’ve read recently at Cortexio, Hooked by Nir Eyal, where the Hooked model explains how modern software is built to increase user interaction. By giving the user (or student) a variable reward the chances of the user returning to the application is much greater. (This is also why gambling can be such an addiction).
As a teacher it can seem like a daunting job to create individual learning paths for all students where they all have a 85% success rate.
This is why adaptive learning systems like Cortexio are so powerful. Cortexio creates an unique learning path for each student based on their performance where we aim at a 85% success rate.
More about our adaptive learning algorithms will be described in coming posts.
Wilson, R.C., Shenhav, A., Straccia, M. et al. The Eighty Five Percent Rule for optimal learning. Nat Commun 10, 4646 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12552-4
