In order to identify the dimensions and indices of the phenomenon of “leading transfer of learning” within the secondary schools of Tehran province, a sample of 17 lecturers, principals, and experienced teachers was targeted and then interviewed. Inductive analyses of the collected data at three levels of open, pivotal, and selective coding indicate that the role of high school principals along...

We present a novel experimental method for identifying the inductive biases of human learners. The key idea behind this method is simple: we use participants’ responses on one trial to generate the stimuli they see on the next. A theoretical analysis of this “iterated learning” procedure, based on the assumption that learners are Bayesian agents, predicts that it should reveal the inductive bia...