An errorless learning technique was used to teach a multihandicapped adolescent three discrimination tasks. The student learned to correctly identify objects which corresponded to the teacher's verbal ...

Do people learn from their mistakes? This question is often a subject of discussion at rehabilitation centers. For people with memory problems preventing mistakes is a better learning strategy. New ...

Researchers have found the first evidence that older brains get more benefit than younger brains from learning information the hard way -- via trial-and-error ...

Nate Kornell receives funding from the James S. McDonnell Foundation. Teachers give tests to find out what their students know. But tests do a lot more than that and can have a powerful effect on what ...