Monday 6 August 2007

Master thesis on implicit learning

After much ado my master thesis was published in Learning and Instruction in 2006. The article looks at the phenomenon of implicit learning. It has often been argued based on findings of implicit learning in a lab environment that the approach should be assumed in the educational system. We wanted to test this, and performed implicit learning experiments in a school setting. We found evidence of implicit learning, but found more traditional, explicit teaching to be more efficient.

Sætrevik, Reber & Sannum, 2006 The Utility of Implicit Learning in the Teaching of Rules