It has been three weeks since Ben I started collaborating with RememberMore. It has been a fascinating, professionally rewarding, mainly digital, tennis conversation exchange, regarding the introduction of clasroom.remembermore.app and then RememberMore app to his classes. Conversations tend to bookend …
28 Jan 2011 I bookmarked three links on retrieval practice. Part of a Purdue University press release on the work of Jeff Karpicke. I distinctly remember a 50% improvement in long-term memory for retrieval over concept maps. A consolidation activity …
So I was recently asked, “Isn’t Successive Relearning just spaced retrieval practice?” Well yes, and more. Both retrieval practice and distributed practice are key ingredients of successive relearning however, so is success and there is a lot of detail covered …
I am forever re-thinking about the interplay of cognitive architecture, working memory and curriculum/instructional design, even more so when preparing schemes of learning at half-term. However, more recently, rather than thinking about what new information needs to be taught, I …
It has been a while since I wrote about curriculum. Reviewing the 2023 ISI Framework has got me thinking about curriculum again, with curriculum stretching across three of the four sections: In truth, not much has changed however, what do …
Co-post on SecEd I hope you enjoy this summary post on retrieval practice and test-enhanced learning – as the fog begins to clear. Research into the factors that make the use of retrieval practice effective continues apace. From directing attention …
Teaching Holes to Year 7 pupils we quiz every lesson. We pre-test chapter target vocabulary via matched diagnostic and target cues (word-definitions). We then post-test (spacing within the lesson). As we progress through the text, we continue with matched quizzes …
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 …
