“As such, it is not surprising that the way in which information is organized, i.e., the sequence of events, can have a deep impact on what we learn, as well as how well we learn it.” Carvalho and Goldstone (2015) …
Serendipitously, a former colleague @musingsofadr announces ResearchEd Deutschland @rEdDeutschland, on June 18th 2022 at St George’s Düsseldorf and I stumble upon the research of two German cognitive psychologists Karl-Heinz T. Bäuml and Bernhard Pastötter (@pastotter). After reading a handful of …
Not all benefits of testing are backward facing. Repeated, spaced retrieval practice largely references the backward effect of testing, that is, retrieval practice of previously studied information when compared to restudy, leads to that information more likely to be remembered …
Answering questions is not just fun, it is also a good way to learn. Vaughn and Kornell (2019) In the previous post I shared the performance gains of self-testing (6%) Vaughn et al (2021). This then, is the Hollywood prequel …
This has nothing to do with Covid, or lfts, but quite frankly finding an image for this post on “self-testing” was hardly straightforward. There were hundreds of images on testing. That tells us something – right. The influence of self-testing …
We are five weeks in. 12 pupils have racked up nearly 17 hrs of personalised spaced retrieval on RememberMore and a few still prefer to use Classroom.remembermore.app. On average the pupils meeting or exceending the twenty minutes a week expectation. …
In 1968, American psychologist David Ausubel wrote an article in which he stated that the most influential factor for learning new things is “what the learner already knows.” In other words: prior knowledge. According to him, the new things that we …
This post has been in draft for a few months now however prompted by @CatherineRusht2‘s mention of the “Goldilocks Principle” – I finished and posted it. Fortuitous indeed. You get the analogy. Just the “right” amount of difficulty – not …
