Plateau effect
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A Plateau effect occurs when a formerly effective measure ceases to cause further change. For example, plateau effects may appear in learning, when students experience a dwindling (less steadily) benefit from their learning effort.[1]
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- ^ Lyster, R.: Differential effects of prompts and recasts in form-focused instruction. In: Studies in Second Language Acquisition #26 (2004), pp. 399-432.
