Successive relearning is a pedagogical approach to space retrieval practice
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 …
Bahrick’s proposal of a “two-phase process,” of acquisition (or encoding) and maintenance clearly applied to the rhythms of teaching in schools, possibly in other education environments too. To that I added a third phase, a potentiation phase. So we have …
Dr Harry Bahrick research and insights continues to gnaw away at me. Widely recognised for his accomplishments as a pioneering researcher and as a teacher, his elucidatory commentary is both accessible and compelling. Back in 1979 he was critical of …
Not exactly a catchy title. Nevertheless it is an important one. Three years into my edventures into test-enhanced learning, with the book first final draft back with the editor, Rawson and Dunlosky (2022) publish ‘Successive Relearning: An Underexplored but Potent …
In December 2020, in an article for secondary education magazine SecEd I made the case that despite the “wealth of evidence” (Agarwal et al, 2021) about the “reliable advantage” (Yang et al, 2021) of test-enhanced learning – more commonly referred …
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 transfer, errorful generation and elaboration. For the past three weeks / weekends I have been …
This post has been in draft for a few months now however prompted by @CatherineRusht2‘s mention of the “Goldilocks Principle” – I finished and posted it. Fortuitous indeed. You get the analogy. Just the “right” amount of difficulty – not …
