Adaptive cuing (limited in practice)
Tonight’s reading, “Techniques for scaffolding retrieval practice: The costs and benefits of adaptive versus diminishing cues.” Fiechter & Benjamin (2019) are investigating retrieval difficulty. With …
Research
Summarising or applying research
ResearchEd Berkshire
Professionally today at #rEDBerks with @hp_phillips, as a Secondary pairing, we curated a literacy, reading / phonics pathway with our Primary colleagues. We a little …
Generate questions, testing or restudy?
Exams season is upon us. With hindsight, I should have written and posted this sooner. This post focuses on revision for long-term retention. That is …
Low, low, low-stakes bests desirable difficulties
Students have limited time to study, and thus the total time it costs is a vital consideration. In fact, we found that practicing efficiently had …
Sleep tight – a spacing opportunity
Sleep interests me. From personal effectiveness (Marine time) and early morning risers routines to research into young people well-being. We all know how vital sleep …
SecEd – this time it’s a series
Back in December I wrote a post for Sec Ed stating that an understanding of “retrieval practice alone is not enough.” In that post I …