Power Law of Practice

Power Law of Practice (George Snoddy, 1920s) – in everyday terms, improvements in one’s performance tend to be rapid and significant when one begins to practice, and increasingly minor with more extensive practice – which, in effect, is a description of the first of the Learning Curves shown above.. In more technical terms, the logarithms of “number of trials” and “reaction time” are inverse-linearly related, generating a Power Law Distribution (see Complex Systems Research.)

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Davis, B., & Francis, K. (2024). “Power Law of Practice” in Discourses on Learning in Education. https://learningdiscourses.com.