Part 1 in a two part series, supports my conversation with Seb @tripitaka74. Seb Venture Teachers Talk Radio. This post is being shared ahead of the show where we are planning to discuss both the benefits and practicalities (deployment) of …
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 …
More evidence that “distributing low stakes multiple-choice questions throughout lectures is effective for increasing test performance.” However, that was not the focus on this paper. The objective was to determine elements and procedures from the testing effect literature for practical …
The final post in the Heitmann series. What have we learnt so far? Adaptation enhances the benefits of practice quizzing and is therefore a suitable tool to further optimise the use of practice quizzing in educational contexts. Cognitive demand-based adaptations …
This is part two of a three part series reviewing Svenja Heitmann Dissertation “On Optimising the Use of Practice Quizzing: Benefits Increase by Adapting and May Depend on Learners’ Achievement Motives and the publications that followed. Remember, in the first …
Snapshot of Schwieren et al., (2017) The focus of testing is shifted from the assessment of learning outcomes to supporting the learning process – assessment for learning rather than assessment of learning. This paper focused on applied classroom practice. 19 …
