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.
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GUEST POST: Reflections on a “Spaced Practice Challenge” with Community College Students
PTK decided to conduct a challenge where students were required to log two hour-long study sessions a week for the final three weeks of classes. We offered multiple incentives to encourage student participation...
Guest Post: Retrieval Practice: How to Encourage Long-Term Retention
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.
Notetaking Formats
One of the most common metaphors to describe what the first few years of medical school is like is that it is like drinking water from a fire hose. There is an overwhelming amount of information that students need to learn, and need to learn fast. One of the areas that I help medical students with is in improving their notetaking to help them manage the “fire hose” of information.
Spaced Practice and Working Memory
Even among the top effective, evidence-based study strategies that we write about, spaced practice is one of the best. Spaced practice is all about when you engage in practice. It is better to spread practice out over time, rather than massing (cramming). This is true whether you are reviewing …
GUEST POST: Leveraging AI in a Research-Driven Way: Augmenting feedback during spaced retrieval practice using ChatGPT
If you use edtech in your classroom, you’ve probably seen at least one of the tools you use recently advertise their brand new “AI feature.”
At Podsie, the core of what we’re building has always been research-driven, so as the AI hype rages on, …