Category: Executive Function

Minding the Practice Gap

The “practice gap” is an emerging issue in higher education and beyond. This gap, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, represents a lack of experience in social and independent life skills that teens and young adults would typically develop through everyday interactions and experiential learning.

Remote learning and social distancing during the pandemic limited opportunities for face-to-face interactions to such an extent that students starting college today don’t have many of the social skills their peers a decade ago took as granted.