{"id":62786,"date":"2018-02-28T11:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T16:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=62786"},"modified":"2018-02-28T11:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T16:23:29","slug":"why-students-forget-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-terada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/02\/28\/why-students-forget-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-terada\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Students Forget\u2014and What You Can Do About It [Terada]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Students Forget\u2014and What You Can Do About It<\/strong> <\/a>— from edutopia.org by Youki Terada
\nOur brains are wired to forget, but there are research-backed strategies you can use to make your teaching stick.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

5 Teacher Strategies
\n<\/strong>When students learn a new piece of information, they make new synaptic connections. Two scientifically based ways to help them retain learning is by making as many connections as possible\u2014typically to other concepts, thus widening the \u201cspiderweb\u201d of neural connections\u2014but also by accessing the memory repeatedly over time.<\/p>\n

Which explains why the following learning strategies, all tied to research conducted within the past five years, are so effective:<\/p>\n

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  1. Peer-to-peer explanations:<\/strong> When students explain what they\u2019ve learned to peers, fading memories are reactivated, strengthened, and consolidated. This strategy not only increases retention but also encourages active learning<\/a> (Sekeres et al., 2016<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  2. The spacing effect:<\/strong> Instead of covering a topic and then moving on, revisit key ideas throughout the school year. Research shows that students perform better academically when given multiple opportunities to review learned material. For example, teachers can quickly incorporate a brief review of what was covered several weeks earlier into ongoing lessons, or use homework to re-expose students to previous concepts (Carpenter et al., 2012<\/a>; Kang, 2016<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  3. Frequent practice tests:<\/strong> Akin to regularly reviewing material, giving frequent practice tests can boost long-term retention and, as a bonus, help protect against stress<\/a>, which often impairs memory performance. Practice tests can be low stakes and ungraded, such as a quick pop quiz at the start of a lesson or a trivia quiz on Kahoot<\/a>, a popular online game-based learning platform. Breaking down one large high-stakes test into smaller tests over several months is an effective approach (Adesope, Trevisan, & Sundararajan, 2017<\/a>; Butler, 2010<\/a>; Karpicke, 2016<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  4. Interleave concepts:<\/strong> Instead of grouping similar problems together, mix them up. Solving problems involves identifying the correct strategy to use and then executing the strategy. When similar problems are grouped together, students don\u2019t have to think about what strategies to use\u2014they automatically apply the same solution over and over. Interleaving forces students to think on their feet, and encodes learning more deeply (Rohrer, 2012<\/a>; Rohrer, Dedrick, & Stershic, 2015<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  5. Combine text with images:<\/strong> It\u2019s often easier to remember information that\u2019s been presented in different ways, especially if visual aids can help organize information. For example, pairing a list of countries occupied by German forces during World War II with a map of German military expansion can reinforce that lesson. It\u2019s easier to remember what\u2019s been read and seen, instead of either one alone (Carney & Levin, 2002<\/a>; Bui & McDaniel, 2015<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So even though forgetting starts as soon as learning happens\u2014as Ebbinghaus\u2019s experiments demonstrate\u2014research shows that there are simple and effective strategies to help make learning stick.<\/p>\n

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