Summarising or applying research
Dr Stephen Chew, Professor of Psychology at Samford University takes us on a tour of “how to make teaching and learning more effective.” Learning only takes place in one location that’s inside your brain. If you understand the principles how …
The annual trip to Farnham Heath End School. Old friends, new friends, presenting and professional learning. This year’s presentation showcased the research of Dr Luke Eglington and his investigation into Optimal Efficiency Threshold. In search of the sweet-spot most efficient …
Not exactly a catchy title. Nevertheless it is an important one. Three years into my edventures into test-enhanced learning, with the book first final draft back with the editor, Rawson and Dunlosky (2022) publish ‘Successive Relearning: An Underexplored but Potent …
When you read the research on test-enhanced learning you will eventually find yourself knocking at the door of successive relearning. Track back through the papers on successive relearning and you will eventually meet the brilliant research of Dr Harry Bahrick. …
This INSET our school benefited from an afternoon’s presentation and conversation with Sarah Cottingham @overpracticed. Sarah’s social threads and blog posts are becoming very popular indeed. Here is what I took away from her presentation in addition to what I …
At the beginning of the week @BradleyBusch shared a new retrieval study, Sumeracki & Castillo (2022) “Covert and overt retrieval practice in the classroom,” with a bit of cold-calling thrown into the mix too. Bradley’s summary of the paper: “covert …
The support for #retrievalpractice (quizzing) is inexorable. Here, Shana Carpenter, Steven Pan and Andrew Butler take a more practical view of retrieval together with the second “high-utility” strategy spacing. Dr Carpenter was kind enough to share a readable view of …
If you occasionally swing past this blog you’ll not be surprised by the headline. What you may not be aware of is that quizzing also reduces course failure rates or increases the odds of passing a class. “…the odds of …
