EDST1010 Week 4 Distributed Practice PDF

EDST1010 Week 4 Reading the text multiple times cements it in your memory, right? RAUNO PARRILA [email protected] Note to user: Replace this image with your own. § Right click on this Placeholder box...

EDST1010 Week 4 Reading the text multiple times cements it in your memory, right? RAUNO PARRILA [email protected] Note to user: Replace this image with your own. § Right click on this Placeholder box § Replace image § Select image and click ‘Resize image to fit in placeholder’) What does learning science tell us about effective study strategies? Five effective techniques (in order of the strength of evidence) 1. Practice testing 2. Distributed practice 3. Interleaved practice 4. Elaborative interrogation 5. Self-explanation Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Nathan & Willingham (2013) 2 2. Distributed (Spaced) Practice The term distributed practice effect refers to the finding that distributing learning over time (either within a single study session or across sessions) benefits long-term retention more than does massing learning opportunities back-to-back or in relatively close succession. Distributed practice effect includes spacing effect (the advantage of spaced over massed practice) and lag effect (the advantage of spacing with longer lags over spacing with shorter lags). Includes distributed practice testing and distributed study sessions (the former is usually more effective than the latter). How do it (as suggested by your textbook authors) How do it (as suggested by your textbook authors) How do it (as suggested by your textbook authors) How do it (as suggested by your textbook authors) How do it (as suggested by your textbook authors)  Conceptual understanding in statistics Foreign language vocabulary learning OFFICE | FACULTY | DEPARTMENT 9  Conceptual understanding in statistics Foreign language vocabulary learning OFFICE | FACULTY | DEPARTMENT 10 When does distributed practice work? Cued recall (including multiple choice), free recall, short-answer questions, fill-in-the-blank questions Longer lags usually better than shorter lags – if goal is permanent retention, the longer the better Intentional processing better than incidental processing Works for all participants (at least from 2-years up) Works with all kinds of materials and domains, but possibly smaller effects with very complex tasks Delayed testing better than immediate testing Why does distributed practice work? More thorough processing of the material when practice distributed When sessions close to each other, the second/third/etc. learning opportunity is easier and requires less work à feeling of knowing the material It could also be that when sessions apart, each constitute a recall practice, and practice recalling enhances memory Maybe time between sessions helps to consolidate memory with other memories (good connections and organization), and the subsequent sessions benefit from this Summary “[Distributed practice] works across students of different ages, with a wide variety of materials, on the majority of standard laboratory measures, and over long delays. It is easy to implement (although it may require some training) and has been used successfully in a number of classroom studies. Although less research has examined distributed-practice effects using complex materials, the existing classroom studies have suggested that distributed practice should work for complex materials as well.” Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Nathan & Willingham (2013, p. 40) 13 Additional reading From the authors of the textbook: Spacing your study http://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2016/7/21-1 Spacing in teaching practice http://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2016/4/12-1 Research summaries (Leganto, Week 4): Benjamin & Tullis, 2010 Dunlosky, 2013 Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Nathan & Willingham, 2013 Weinstein, Madan & Sumeracki, 2018 Science translations (Leganto, Week 4) The Science of Learning in Scientific American Forget Cramming OFFICE | FACULTY | DEPARTMENT 14