The learning curve, also referred to as the productivity experience curve, represents the improvement in an employee's production or work output as he learns the steps involved in each task. As the ...

There are a lot of different reasons people plateau in their quest for mastery or excellence. Conditions might not be right; support structures might not be in place; the individual might not be ...

If you don’t read past this first paragraph, remember just two things: You almost never move up a learning curve, only down. And the steeper the curve, the easier the learning. Learning curves were ...

Many preschoolers take a surprisingly long and bumpy mental path to the realization that people can have mistaken beliefs — say, thinking that a ball is in a basket when it has secretly been moved to ...

In surgical training, learning curves are used to plot the number of attempts required to master a difficult procedure, or the number of procedures required to achieve proficiency. It is incorrect to ...

Teachers who love teaching and don't have any papers to grade. Students who love coming to class and don't care about accumulating credit. It might sound like any college instructor's daydream, but it ...