What's the difference between grad students and undergrad students? One difference is how they go about solving problems, especially complicated problems involving lots of data.
I'll give you a hint: the answer has something to do with adaptive expertise. Grad students got it. Or at least have something that we'd call adaptive expertise.
00:00 Introduction
00:14 The problem
01:18 Who did better?
01:52 The more important question
03:43 What grad students did
04:48 Undergrad style
05:12 Improving the tool
06:19 What does time have to do with it?
06:52 It's about habits
08:12 My sales pitch
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The study this video was based on:
Martin, L., & Schwartz, D. L. (2009). Prospective adaptation in the use of external representations. Cognition and Instruction, 27(4), 370-400. (available at [ Ссылка ])
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