All tagged retrieval practice
In this week’s post, Cindy and I (Althea) talk about our work with medical student learners. We have both worked for medical schools for a little over a year now and we’ve learned some things! We discuss common challenges for learning in medical school, efficient learning strategies, learning in the context of attentional disorders and anxiety, and what it means to prepare future healers.
In this review the Trumble and colleagues sought to better understand how spacing and retrieval practice are used in health professions education and whether these strategies led to improvements in academic grades.
You are at the end of the school year and your students just took the big, elusive, terrifying standardized test. As a teacher, you know you did all you could to prepare them, and you saw them experience small successes along the way. Students were doing great on the chapter tests, so they must have learned the material! Then, you get the results back from the standardized test, and it is not what you were expecting. You are left shocked and wondering what went wrong.
Last month, I put out an “Office Hours Video” on Patreon about a paper investigating how undergraduates cope with anxiety in intro biology courses. What is an “Office Hours Video”, you ask? They are special “thank yous” for our Patreon supporters. Our blog, podcast, and downloadable materials …
The great thing about effective learning strategies is that they tend to work well for a lot of different people, as long as they are modified in appropriate ways when needed. One individual difference between people that often comes up in learning research is developmental age or stage. Our …
While we talk about the benefits of retrieval practice a lot here at the Learning Scientists, we usually talk about the benefits of retrieval practice for already learned information. However, retrieval practice has also been shown to be beneficial for learning new information.
