Where retrieval practice meets CLT
“I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear” Act 2 Scene 3 It has been a while since I got behind the keyboard to blog. Following the positive reception to “Why and how we should be using retrieval practice and space …
Successive Relearning
Successive relearning is a pedagogical approach to space retrieval practice
Over at SecEd
Why and how we should be using retrieval practice and space learning Published: 01 December 2021 Retrieval practice alone is not enough. We must also consider spaced learning, interleaving, feedback and metacognition if we are to have an impact on the …
A Meta-Analytic Review of the Benefit of Spacing out Retrieval Practice Episodes on Retention
3948 results, processed down to 42 studies selected for screening, 29 studies fulfilled the criteria. Two key questions Spaced versus Massed Repeated Retrieval Practice Expanding versus Uniform Spacing Schedule Moderators included Setting Education Level Type of Material Design Test Type …
Vocabulary: Teaching vocab look like (part 5)
Hours invested, reading and watching, to learn that the Simple View of Reading is not simple, and that “Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science.” Here is what Louisa Moats would have us know and do. And if Pamela Snow references her …
Vocabulary: The Bonnie and Clyde of academic learning (part 4)
Life is short. Vocabulary is long. (And interwoven).* What started out as a line of enquiry, became an edventure, bringing with it new phrases and plenty of new vocabulary: word families, orthography, morpho-phonemic language, The Simple View of Reading (SVR), …
Elaborative questioning and CRM (Part 5)
In Part 4 of this post, together with Ben Windsor @MrClassics3 we discussed the importance of the corrective feedback stage of using RememberMore’s Classroom (CRM) function in practicality. Read it here. The feedback stage of the RememberMore protocol closes the loop …
Hidden Lives of Learners (III)
I can not remember when I first encountered Graham Nuthall’s research or exactly when I first read The Hidden Lives of Learners but it is one of those titles that often re-surfaces in talks and blog posts, still, having been …
Arriving with substantive knowledge
This is just an idea, a proposal, an idea incubating, at that. I have been thinking about the notion for a little while and shared it with a few trusted educator colleagues. There are upsides and downsides however I would …