Posts associated with the design and developement of RememberMore – a spaced retrieval practice platform
Research papers investigating “retrieval practice” continue to be published rather regularly. Fortuntely, at a pace that I can almost keep up to date with. This paper by Zheng et al., (2023) caught my attention as you rarely read papers which …
Last year, I had one period per week with four Year 8 pupils to support their English lessons. I did not have any prior experience of teaching Year 8 English at the school. So what did we do? I reviewed …
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not information. They are distinctly different and should be taught distinctly differently. Even knowing this, we won’t travel far at all without pupils’ attention and the borders of the hinterland will remain at a …
Edperiment 1a down, 1b to go. You are familiar with the methodology. Uncommon word or diagnostic cue. You produce the target cue or definition. ‘Papist’ was an uncommon word, do you remember it’s meaning? According to research and the Twitter …
We have already covered a lot of ground. So to gain a firmer footing… and ‘walking-the-walk,’ in promoting a ‘successive relearning’ approach to teaching, here goes with a review of Part I with a smattering of testing. Little is ever …
For the past three years, I have been reading, researching and thinking specifically about the process of learning and test-enhanced learning within the parameters of Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) multi-store model of memory, which assumes there are three logically and …
Yesterday Paul Cline @PaulCline_psy asked an excellent question. #Edutwitter Anyone recommend a good blog explaining the difference between general retrieval practice vs RP as a way to activate prior knowledge for a lesson. Want something clear to share with staff. …
In part 1, I shared the benefits of quizzing and of routines. Now to the practicalities of quizzing in the classroom – with a little help from classroom.remembermore.app and plenty of discussion with Sarah Cottingham @overpractised. (See the link at …
