Dr Tom Perry’s foreword to Test-enhanced Learning has been sent to the publisher. Waiting for Dr Perry’s foreword, felt like I was a pupil waiting for my work to be marked. Such an ironic spoonful of sugar. This short post …
Bahrick’s proposal of a “two-phase process,” of acquisition (or encoding) and maintenance clearly applied to the rhythms of teaching in schools, possibly in other education environments too. To that I added a third phase, a potentiation phase. So we have …
Dr Harry Bahrick research and insights continues to gnaw away at me. Widely recognised for his accomplishments as a pioneering researcher and as a teacher, his elucidatory commentary is both accessible and compelling. Back in 1979 he was critical of …
Of course it is meant to be a provocative title. It is adapted from the very first paper I read on retrieval practice back in 2011 via the Purdue Newsroom. It was the press release that first got me interested …
Back in 2011 I read a Purdue Newsroom release and a series of press articles about Jeff Karpicke’s retrieval research. Our research shows that practicing retrieval while you study is crucial to learning,” the study’s author Jeffrey D. Karpicke, an …
So the analogy of a attention-spotlight can be used to describe my experience of test-enhanced learning retrieval routines in the classroom. Routines that both brighten and focus the spotlight (more spotlight and less floodlight). Which is arguably the aim of …
After reading ‘Retrieval-based learning and prior knowledge,’ Buchin and Mulligan (2022) yesterday, Dr Buchin then shared “The Testing Effect Under Divided Attention: Educational Application.” I am acutely aware of the importance of both prior knowledge and attention and keen to …
After posting a review of Gupta et al. (2021) and their summary conclusion that retrieval was “a potent learning tool across most if not all levels of prior content mastery,” co-author Dr Steven Pan signposted a second paper with a …
