Coaching practices for Criterion Based Learning
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Given enough time I can reason my way to the right call, slowly working it out
- I decide what still needs work purely on vibes
- When I look at an example, my eye gets grabbed by the obvious surface stuff
- I’ve only ever studied the clean textbook versions, so I can spot the perfect example fine
- I watch someone who’s genuinely good at this glance at the same thing I’m staring at and instantly catch something I can’t see at all
Practices that may help
- Rapid classification trials
Make classification judgments quickly and get immediate feedback to accelerate discrimination learning.
Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind - Restudy decision protocol
Use a defined decision rule — not a feeling — to determine which items get additional study.
Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned - Attentional cueing for critical features
Direct attention explicitly to the features that define a category during early learning.
Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind - Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned
Judgments of learning (JOLs) are in-the-moment predictions about how well information will be remembered later. Thomas Nelson’s research showed JOLs are often inaccurate — biased upward by current processing fluency — causing learners to declare items "learned" prematurely and under-study material they will later forget. Delayed JOLs and retrieval-based checks produce more accurate predictions and better study-time allocation. - High-variability exposure
Study many different instances of each category to build a discrimination that generalizes.
Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind - Expert-comparison study
Watch or listen to an expert perform and articulate what they are attending to that you are not.
Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind - Transfer testing with novel instances
Periodically test your perceptual skill on examples you have never seen to verify genuine learning.
Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind - Use "take the best": choose on your single most informative cue
When choosing between options, identify the most diagnostic cue and use it — stop searching for more.
Simple Heuristics: Gerd Gigerenzer’s Case for Fast and Frugal Thinking - Contrast training
Study pairs of similar examples that differ on exactly one critical feature to sharpen discrimination.
Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind - Accumulate varied situational episodes to move from novice to competent
Build a library of real cases — not just more rules — to develop situational recognition.
The Dreyfus Model: Five Stages from Novice to Expert
Related concerns
- Criterion Learning
Make classification judgments quickly and get immediate feedback to accelerate discrimination learning.
Rapid classification trials
- Philip Kellman Perceptual Learning Module
Perceptual learning is the improvement of discrimination and recognition through practice — training the perceptual system to detect distinctions that were previously invisible. Philip Kellman’s research shows it can be induced rapidly with well-designed training software and produces durable, transfer-ready expertise that complements conceptual instruction.
- How Long Does Perceptual Learning Last
Revisit previously trained perceptual categories at expanding intervals to prevent decay.
Spaced perceptual review
- How To Train Perception
Perceptual learning is the improvement of discrimination and recognition through practice — training the perceptual system to detect distinctions that were previously invisible. Philip Kellman’s research shows it can be induced rapidly with well-designed training software and produces durable, transfer-ready expertise that complements conceptual instruction.
- Perceptual Learning Speed
Make classification judgments quickly and get immediate feedback to accelerate discrimination learning.
- Perceptual Learning Training Your Eye Before Your Mind At Work
Perceptual learning is the improvement of discrimination and recognition through practice — training the perceptual system to detect distinctions that were previously invisible. Philip Kellman’s research shows it can be induced rapidly with well-designed training software and produces durable, transfer-ready expertise that complements conceptual instruction.
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