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Education of a model student.


ABSTRACT: A dilemma faced by teachers, and increasingly by designers of educational software, is the trade-off between teaching new material and reviewing what has already been taught. Complicating matters, review is useful only if it is neither too soon nor too late. Moreover, different students need to review at different rates. We present a mathematical model that captures these issues in idealized form. The student's needs are modeled as constraints on the schedule according to which educational material and review are spaced over time. Our results include algorithms to construct schedules that adhere to various spacing constraints, and bounds on the rate at which new material can be introduced under these schedules.

SUBMITTER: Novikoff TP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3277570 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Education of a model student.

Novikoff Timothy P TP   Kleinberg Jon M JM   Strogatz Steven H SH  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120123 6


A dilemma faced by teachers, and increasingly by designers of educational software, is the trade-off between teaching new material and reviewing what has already been taught. Complicating matters, review is useful only if it is neither too soon nor too late. Moreover, different students need to review at different rates. We present a mathematical model that captures these issues in idealized form. The student's needs are modeled as constraints on the schedule according to which educational mater  ...[more]

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