learning impediment

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A learning impediment ('learning bug') is some condition or feature that impedes (block/slows) intended learning.

It may be unhelpful to see learning impediments as a flaw in the learner: they are better seen as bugs in the teaching-learning system, often due to a lack of match between the interpretive resources he teacher expects student to have available, and those they actually engage in the learning situation.

Read about the typology of learning impediments

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.