{"id":3645,"date":"2011-05-14T12:23:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T17:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2011-05-14T15:38:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T20:38:02","slug":"people-remember-10-of-what-they-read-a-knol-by-rutger-van-de-sande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3645","title":{"rendered":"People remember 10% of what they read…? – a knol by Rutger van de Sande"},"content":{"rendered":"

I heard a keynote at the GRAND 2011 conference who mentioned a “learning pyramid” which purports to show that lecturing is the worst way to teach.<\/p>\n

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I went looking for the research behind this and it seems that the pyramid is a hoax. People remember 10% of what they read…? – a knol by Rutger van de Sande<\/a> is a short study that tried to figure out what were really the percentages. Van de Sande’s study came up with different numbers: Hearing: 36%, Reading: 51%, Seeing: 35%, Hearing and Seeing: 54%, Discussing: 50%, Experiencing: 70%, and Explaining: 58%.<\/p>\n

Other blogs and essays on the subject include: Will Thalheimer<\/a>‘s blog debunking the pyramid. There is an article in Education<\/em> titled, The Learning Pyramid: Does It Point Teachers in the Right Direction?<\/a> (that I haven’t read) that looks at the source for the numbers. Finally there is a long blog post on the subject by David Jones<\/a>. He says that the “research is generally referenced back to the National Training Laboratories in Bethel Maine.” The NTL<\/a> has apparently lost the original data.<\/p>\n

This then raises the question of whether lecturing is really so bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I heard a keynote at the GRAND 2011 conference who mentioned a “learning pyramid” which purports to show that lecturing is the worst way to teach. I went looking for the research behind this and it seems that the pyramid is a hoax. People remember 10% of what they read…? – a knol by Rutger … Continue reading People remember 10% of what they read…? – a knol by Rutger van de Sande<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-education","category-education-and-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}