Category: Blog
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0150 | The Erroneous-Example Gate — How a Tutor Uses Deliberately Incorrect Solutions to Teach Error Detection Without Seeding the Misconception or Rewarding Superficial Fault-Finding
THB-0150 — How tutors decide when deliberately incorrect worked examples can sharpen misconception discrimination, and when learners first need a correct model, more prior knowledge or a safer comparison.
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0149 | The Self-Explanation Readiness Gate — How a Tutor Knows When Asking “Why?” Will Deepen Learning and When the Learner First Needs More Knowledge, Modelling or a Narrower Prompt
THB-0149 — How tutors decide when learner-generated explanation will strengthen integration and reveal thinking, and when explanation demands arrive before the learner has enough knowledge to generate them productively.
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0148 | The Example-Variation Gate — How a Tutor Changes Surface, Representation and Context Enough to Build Transfer Without Changing the Target Into a Different Skill
THB-0148 — How tutors decide what should vary across examples, what must remain invariant, and when variation builds abstraction rather than adding uninterpretable difficulty.
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0147 | The Interleaving Readiness Gate — How a Tutor Knows When to Mix Problem Types So Learners Must Choose a Method, and When Mixing Arrives Before the Methods Are Stable Enough to Discriminate
THB-0147 — How tutors decide when interleaved mixed practice will train method selection and when it arrives before the candidate methods are stable enough to discriminate.
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0146 | The Subscore-Resolution Trap — How a Tutor Uses Diagnostic Breakdowns Without Treating Tiny Categories as More Precise Than the Evidence Behind Them
THB-0146 — How tutors use category scores and diagnostic dashboards without over-interpreting small, noisy or highly correlated subscores as precise learner measurements.
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0145 | The Aggregate-Score Compensation Trap — How a Tutor Stops Strength in One Part of a Paper From Hiding a Consequential Weakness Somewhere Else
THB-0145 — How tutors read total scores without letting strong components compensate numerically for a weak prerequisite, weak task family or fragile performance condition that still needs action.
