For More Effective Practice, Try…Longer…Pauses
When you to students practicing, there's one thing that is often conspicuously absent. Silence. You'll typically hear a good bit of repetition - but not a lot of quiet time or space between repetitions. And why does this matter? Well, studies have found that too little space between repetitions - or too short an "inter-trial interval" can actually inhibit learning. So...is there an optimal length of time to inject between repetitions? Get all the nerdy details here: For More Effective P...