I am reading Ericson's "The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance" which you linked to in your spaced repetition review. It's quite interesting but seems to focus mostly on expert skill which doesn't seem that useful for most people. Do you know if there is an experimental literature on the more general topic of "skill acquisition and improvement"? Literature that deals with questions like if I'm trying to learn to do and understand math proofs easily or to learn to type correctly and efficiently or learning to do literature reviews well what are the strategies that I should expect to work well?
Do you know if there is an experimental literature on the more general topic of "skill acquisition and improvement"?
(I think you may be underestimating the value of deliberate practice, but if you don't like that, read the Handbook as well.)
Funnily enough, I just linked someone on IRC about that topic... I plan to start with page 43 of http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2011/RAND_MG1120.pdf and see where the citations lead me.
The last prize, for the best literature review of spaced repetition, was moderately successful, inspiring a pretty good review of the academic literature on spaced repetition. I am interested in experimenting more with prizes, but I would like to get input other people's input: what are other good topics for future prizes?
The topic should be: