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We recently received this question at a workshop we ran for K-12 teacher and leaders. After hearing the research on spaced practice and retrieval, one might wonder: What do these strategies do to students’ abilities to make inferences, apply what they know, and think creatively?
When we practice retrieval, or bring information to mind from our memories, we typically improve our memory for the information. Retrieval practice can be implemented in a lot of different ways, and we’ve talked about a number of them, for example short-answer ...
Better technology, faster and omnipresent internet connection, and the existence of social networking sites have changed the way we communicate with each other and what we share about ourselves. If you – like me – have a Facebook account you may have shared information with people that you haven’t seen in years and that you probably will not ever encounter face-to-face for...
Sometimes we are contacted by instructors or students and are asked for a prescription for how to study or how to implement the strategies successfully. We have a lot of reasons why we can’t offer a simple answer to these questions, but today I want to offer you a personal ...
I sometimes write to learn things. This involves me setting myself the goal of writing a paper (and submitting it for publication) on something I don’t really know very much about. In a new paper, Arnold and colleagues tried to address some of the inconsistencies ...
You certainly have encountered many notions of the learning styles concept. We have covered this topic before. It is the idea that people have a specific learning preference and that instruction should be tailored according to that preference in order to enhance ...
