All tagged retrieval practice
AI and learning has been in the news recently. The Economist recently featured data from a study of 7-12 grade Chinese students’ homework and exam scores and AI use (1). Students who relied heavily on generative AI to complete their homework scored highly on their homework, but did not fare as well on exams. However, students who either didn’t use generative AI, or who only used it strategically, did not perform as well on their homework, but performed better than their peers on their exam.
Fundamentally, we are all learners and as professionals in education, we are expected to continue learning. This means that the same evidence-based strategies that you seek out for your students can apply to you as well.
Today I’m reviewing a study that directly compared two effective learning strategies (retrieval practice and worked examples) on their usefulness for generalizing knowledge (transfer).
Lately, my preschool-aged daughter has been listening to one of her Tonies* that she calls “Positive Hippo”. *For the uninitiated, a Toniebox is a little speaker. They work with special figurines, called Tonies. The kids put a Tonie on the box and it starts playing …
One of my approaches to teaching (and to work in general) is to impose organization and structure for my students. It helps to decrease uncertainties, but it also makes tackling tasks more efficient and manageable…
I recently remembered this post about retrieval practice and stress. I was talking to one of my students about retrieval practice and stress, and went back to the blog to help me remember some aspects of the research. Upon seeing the …
