Research papers investigating “retrieval practice” continue to be published rather regularly. Fortuntely, at a pace that I can almost keep up to date with. This paper by Zheng et al., (2023) caught my attention as you rarely read papers which …
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 …
In part 1, I shared the benefits of quizzing and of routines. Now to the practicalities of quizzing in the classroom – with a little help from classroom.remembermore.app and plenty of discussion with Sarah Cottingham @overpractised. (See the link at …
Part 1 in a two part series, supports my conversation with Seb @tripitaka74. Seb Venture Teachers Talk Radio. This post is being shared ahead of the show where we are planning to discuss both the benefits and practicalities (deployment) of …
At the beginning of the week @BradleyBusch shared a new retrieval study, Sumeracki & Castillo (2022) “Covert and overt retrieval practice in the classroom,” with a bit of cold-calling thrown into the mix too. Bradley’s summary of the paper: “covert …
If you occasionally swing past this blog you’ll not be surprised by the headline. What you may not be aware of is that quizzing also reduces course failure rates or increases the odds of passing a class. “…the odds of …
More evidence that “distributing low stakes multiple-choice questions throughout lectures is effective for increasing test performance.” However, that was not the focus on this paper. The objective was to determine elements and procedures from the testing effect literature for practical …
The final post in the Heitmann series. What have we learnt so far? Adaptation enhances the benefits of practice quizzing and is therefore a suitable tool to further optimise the use of practice quizzing in educational contexts. Cognitive demand-based adaptations …
