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    "pk": 26476,
    "title": "When does passive learning improve the effectiveness of active learning?",
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    "abstract": "Much of what we learn comes from a mix of information thatwe select (active) and information that we receive (passive).But which type of training is better for different kinds of learn-ing problems? Here, we explore this question by comparingdifferent sequences of active/passive training in an abstractconcept learning task. First, we replicate the active learningadvantage from Markant & Gureckis (2014) (Experiments 1aand 1b). Then, we provide a test of whether experiencing ac-tive learning first or passive learning first improves the effec-tiveness of concept learning (Experiment 2). Across both ex-periments, active training led to better learning of the targetconcept, but “passive-first” learners were more accurate than“active-first” learners and more efficient than “active-only”learners. These findings broaden our understanding of whendifferent sequences of active/passive learning are more effec-tive, suggesting that for certain problems active explorationcan be enhanced with prior passive experience.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "active learning"
        },
        {
            "word": "concept learning"
        },
        {
            "word": "replication"
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    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vc91183",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Kyle",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "MacDonald",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "C.",
            "last_name": "Frank",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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