Making Chemistry easier
Post testing, backward effects, has largely been the “main course” of the past ten years of retrieval practice. However, there have both been off-shoots; knowledge …
Research
Summarising or applying research
When to test?
When is the best time to set a test? Before being taught the knowledge – pretesting Whilst being taught the knowledge – pretresting and some …
More getting it wrong helps get it right
In case you missed the first post Getting it wrong helps to get it right, the point was, the act of retrieving information from long …
Getting it wrong helps to get it right
Trying to come up with an answer rather than having it presented to you, or trying to solve a problem before being shown the solution, …
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Last week I stumbled upon the work of Prof Karl-Heinz Bäuml, Professor of Psychology at Regensburg University and wrote about how retrieval practice can “Revive …
A ‘good’ reason for students to read the entire exam paper, as you asked them to.
Having searched through a truck load on chapters on metacognition, looking to deepen my understanding of accuracy of confidence based assessment, the past few months …