Why should we be interested in a new research paper from the Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning? Here are five reasons. Spaced Retrieval Practice and Edtech Kang et al., (2023) are quick to summarise a wealth of research demonstrating …
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 …
Part I covered the background research, that the “more popular option” of premade flashcards may lead to users “missing out on learning experiences that might occur when making one’s own flashcards.” Of course, there is more to it than that. …
It is a practical question. Use premade flashcards or design your own? What at first appears to be a relatively straightforward question, is far from from it. Pan et al. (2022) offer a ‘General Audience Summary’ and that is a …
At the beginning of the summer, I stumbled upon the work of Dr Svenja Heitmann. At the time, I wrote up the papers and started a dialogue with Dr Svenja about her research. It follows on from my interest in …
Of course it is meant to be a provocative title. It is adapted from the very first paper I read on retrieval practice back in 2011 via the Purdue Newsroom. It was the press release that first got me interested …
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 …
