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.
All tagged retrieval practice
Retrieval Practice vs. Worked Examples: When to Use Which
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).
How Do Secondary Students Study, and Are Their Choices Related to Their Beliefs in Achievement?
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 …
GUEST POST: Using Knowledge Organizers as Effective Study Tools (Repost)
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…
Retrieval Practice and Stress (repost)
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 …
Motivation Effects and Efficiency of Retrieval Practice over Lecture
Retrieval practice is one of the most robust strategies that we have for durable learning. Today I’m reviewing a study that pushed retrieval practice to it’s limits. If retrieval practice is THIS effective, are we wasting time with lectures? Should we just jump straight to the practice?