The 6 benefits of retrieval practice – a visual guide This is a reblog of a piece from Inner Drive on retrieval practice. Retrieval practice, the act of generating answers to questions, is one of the best ways for students to learn for the long term. Here are 6 reasons why.. Retrieval practice is essentially …
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Retrieval Practice and Processing Load We all know by now (I hope) that for real learning, retrieval practice trumps just about all other learning and study strategies. But how does this affect processing load? The Learning Scientists recently published a blog about a piece of research on this topic. Megan Sumeracki writes: If you read …
Retrieval practice works in the classroom (but we knew that already) Opponents of evidence-informed strategies usually say something like: “Sure it works in a controlled laboratory situation, but we’re talking about things that teachers and students need to use in schools”. Here’s a review article by Pooja Agarwal, Ludmilla Nunes, and Janet Blunt that reviewed …
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Hier een uitgebreide versie van mijn column en blog in het decembernummer van Didactief. Logan Fiorella en Richard Mayer schreven een artikel (2016) over generatieve leerstrategieën. Een generatieve leerstrategie vraagt leerlingen actief de leerstof te reorganiseren en integreren met hun voorkennis. Het gaat om activiteiten die leerlingen ertoe aanzetten iets zinvols te produceren dat verder …