It has been three weeks since Ben I started collaborating with RememberMore. It has been a fascinating, professionally rewarding, mainly digital, tennis conversation exchange, regarding the introduction of clasroom.remembermore.app and then RememberMore app to his classes. Conversations tend to bookend …
Does retrieval practice improve student learning in school and classroom settings? Based on our literature review, our response for researchers and educators is an unequivocal “yes.” Agarwal et al., (2021) More meta evidence for Retrieval Practice. A second meta analysis …
Twelve years investment in reading and applying the Cognitive Science principles behind retrieval practice and the “testing effect,” led to a further 12 months of development into RememberMore with my students. 2 lock downs and 12 month road-testing later with …
The final part of a 14 hour marathon. Starting with a question that is very important to me and not least @MaryMyatt. Q16. Does stake level matter? There is no significant difference in testing benefits between high-stakes (g = 0.441) …
If you have made it to Part IV you probably do not need an intro. Question 12 is a belter! A fundamental education modelling question all of it’s own and easily a whole blog post and research studied in of …
The opening post dealt with the broad overview of the paper and the key weighty finding that testing (class quizzing) yields a variety of learning benefits. Part II covered the open questions two to six. Here we are at question …
Yang et al., (2021) published their meta analysis just this week. The first post in this series looked at the broad point of ecological validity of testing research, both backward and forward testing effects concluding with the main finding. The …
Not that creative a post title I know however I have been reading and re-reading Yang et al., (2021) for the third time. It is a hefty piece of research. It draws together a number of components connected to the …
