Educational progression

When students have to make a time/effort tradeoff when swamped with work, not all the work that the professor desires students to complete will be done. Students are still capable of achieving high marks in the absence of 100% commitment, which indicates that there's a disconnect between the work assigned and the demands of a given quantum of instruction.

Matching these would be a challenge, but consider this:

• Instructors identify the highest-level skills that students who are successful in the class should possess
• Instructors make a hierarchy of skills that students would have to progress through in order to develop and demonstrate skills, and connect them together
• Students are given high-level skills to practice, and if they can't manage them, are given easier and more fundamental skills until they are making progress at their experience level