End of year assessments – What to do before. What to do after. To get more learning from ‘End of Year Assessments.’ Under the umbrella of a twin-track school ethos of “happy and successful” and “growth and excellence” (pupils and …
Tonight’s reading, “Techniques for scaffolding retrieval practice: The costs and benefits of adaptive versus diminishing cues.” Fiechter & Benjamin (2019) are investigating retrieval difficulty. With difficulty manipulated by providing easier or harder, more or fewer retrieval cues. In this case …
Professionally today at #rEDBerks with @hp_phillips, as a Secondary pairing, we curated a literacy, reading / phonics pathway with our Primary colleagues. We a little truffle-hunting with Jonathan Mountstevens @MrMountstevens. His preferred metaphorical quality assurance approach over paragliding. Opened by …
On the back of “Generate questions, testing or restudy” here are my top five tips for generating retrieval questions for revision. Time efficiency – When time to learn is limited, it matters a great deal how one puts to use …
Exams season is upon us. With hindsight, I should have written and posted this sooner. This post focuses on revision for long-term retention. That is when the period between learning and testing is greater than at least one day. That …
Students have limited time to study, and thus the total time it costs is a vital consideration. In fact, we found that practicing efficiently had an even larger effect on memory than spacing usually does! Dr Luke Eglington Last week …
Blake does ask some good questions. I cherry picked a few of my favourite responses from a community of semi-like minded educators (we all follow Blake) and paused to reflect what that reveals about me. Teaching is really hard and …
“Practice sets: a more personal path to learning” If Google get this right – and teachers understand it right (and iterate and develop the concept) this could be a defining tool that elevates Google Classroom to the top of the …
