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Getting It Wrong

Scientific American has an excellent article summarizing recent research on how the brain learns, and how the cognitive process of learning interacts with the physiology of it. Getting It Wrong: Surprising tips on how to learn by Henry L Roediger and Brigid Finn is well worth reading by anyone who works creates situations in which someone learns a new skill or new content knowledge.

The short version is this: "People remember things better, longer, if they are given very challenging tests on the material, tests at which they are bound to fail."