It would be great if some of our students were to read this article: it's mostly about what they should be doing between lessons or in the runup to exams to improve their retention of material. That said, it's really useful for us to think about how we want to tell them to revise, as well as the tasks we're setting for homework or even in lessons. As ever, you can download the full article - and the much longer one on which it is based - below. The article covers 10 strategies; I've summarised the most effective below. If you just want the headlines, here they are: Again, practice testing comes out on top. Here's what the researchers say:“by viewing tests as the end-all assessments administered only after learning is complete, teachers and students are missing out on the benefits of one of the most effective strategies for improving student learning”. This doesn't mean that we should be setting practice exams instead of teaching - although practice exams are an indispensible study strategy. Rather, it means that we should use quizzes regularly to help students embed key information. This could be quotations in English, key terms in Science, dates in History or fundamental processes in Maths. Quizzing is an effective strategy across the curriculum. I've written a longer post on the efficacy of practice testing here and I don't want to repeat material. This is what 'Strengthening the Student Toolbox' says which 'Inexpensive Techniques to Improve Education' doesn't:
The second really effective strategy is distributed practice. Again, I have written about this elsewhere and won't repeat myself here. I used the analogy of myself playing golf in my previous post. Dunlosky uses the more student-relevant analogy of video games: “when playing video games, students see their abilities and skills improve dramatically over time in large part because they keep coming back to play the game in a distributed fashion”. We need to try and encourage this model in lessons, mainly through returning throughout a year to topics studied earlier in the course. Doing so will make it more likely that students will retain key information when they come to revising for their exams. Similarly, we should try in lessons to advise students on how they should space their revision in our subjects. For exampe, rather than encouraging students to do one hour a day of English revision ahead of their GCSE exam, I should encourage them to follow a more specific timetable that looks something like this: Monday: Quiz on Macbeth quotations - Practice essay on Unseen Poetry - Quiz on Macbeth. Tuesday: Test on themes from poetry anthology - Practice response to extract from Macbeth - Quiz on poetic techniques. Wednesday: Quiz on Jane Eyre quotations - Practice respons to poetry anthology question - Quiz on Jane Eyre quotations. Thursday: Quiz on An Inspector Calls quotations - Practice response on Jane Eyre - Quiz on An Inspector Calls quotations. Friday: Practice An Inspector Calls Essay.
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