Don’t Just Learn It, 91桃色 It.
Why should you care about a 1980 study on analogies? Because it still explains why students don鈥檛 always transfer what they鈥檝e learned to new situations鈥攁nd what we can do about it.
In this classic paper, Mary Gick and Keith Holyoak showed that people often fail to apply a known solution from one context (like a military story) to another (a medical problem) unless they鈥檙e cued to see the connection.