Quite often percentages of remembrance are assigned to activities like reading, seeing, hearing, ... These are often incorporated into graphics like Dale's pyramid.
In his blogpost Will at Work Learning: People remember 10%, 20%...Oh Really? tries to follow up on the evidence for these percentages. And there seem to be none! The same result can also be found in the Cisco report: Multimodal Learning Through Media: What the Research Says.
Too bad, the percentages were just great in an argument. Wouldn't it be great to have a well designed study giving evidence for percentages like that?
Taking new results from the neurosciences on neuroplasticity, it might even be impossible to find evidence for any common percentages.
Tags: debunking, Dale'spyramid
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Fri, 2014-02-21 13:13
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Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing
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