88 - Christina Barbieri: Do examples help students learn math?
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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Is the Work Examples Effect Beneficial for Learners?
Cognitive load theory was initially proposed by Professor John Sweller, who's an educational psychologist in 1985. The general premise is that our cognitive capacity as humans is limited in what we can process. In the case of work examples, learners can study the work examples before trying to solve a similar problem. And while they're studying these examples, they aren't required to generate random solutions or ask to attend to irrelevant features.
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