links for 2011-01-28

Back in 2011 – I used social bookmarking tool Delicious to capture and share useful learning resources. It captures my first exposure to retrieval practice and wider reading / links and intention to “follow up.”

• Purdue Newsroom – Research finds practicing retrieval is best tool for learning
  (tags: retrieval learning research)

One to follow up on. Testing promotes learning. If the practice of testing promotes learning, how can we make testing part of learning?

Students who invest in rereading or reviewing their notes – their time would be better spent practicing retrieval, such as self-testing, to ensure better learning.

• The best way to study is to take a test
  (tags: retrieval learning)

• Practising retrieval is best tool for learning: Study – Lifestyle – DNA
  Scholarly research – learning and retrieval.
  (tags: retrieval learning memory)