{"id":73531,"date":"2020-12-27T12:28:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T17:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=73531"},"modified":"2020-12-27T12:35:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T17:35:45","slug":"interleaving-how-mixed-practice-can-boost-learning-effectiviology-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/12\/27\/interleaving-how-mixed-practice-can-boost-learning-effectiviology-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Interleaving: How Mixed Practice Can Boost Learning [effectiviology.com]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/effectiviology.com\/interleaving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Interleaving: How Mixed Practice Can Boost Learning<\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from effectiviology.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Interleaving<\/em>\u00a0is a learning technique that involves mixing together different topics or forms of practice, in order to facilitate learning. For example, if a student uses interleaving while preparing for an exam, they can mix up different types of questions, rather than study only one type of question at a time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Interleaving, which is sometimes referred to as\u00a0<em>mixed\u00a0<\/em><em>practice<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>varied practice<\/em>, is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177%2F1529100612453266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contrasted<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0<em>blocked practice<\/em>\u00a0(sometimes referred to as\u00a0<em>specific practice<\/em>), which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1037\/bul0000209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">involves<\/a>\u00a0focusing on only a single topic or form of practice at a time.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Also see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ArMn_6lSoEA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>\u00a0Also see:<\/em><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Powerful-Teaching-Unleash-Science-Learning\/dp\/111952184X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73535 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PowerfulTeachingBookCover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PowerfulTeachingBookCover.jpg 300w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PowerfulTeachingBookCover-101x150.jpg 101w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Interleaving boosts learning by <strong>mixing up closely related topics,<\/strong>\u00a0encouraging discrimination between similarities and differences.\u00a0(Agarwal &amp; Bain, p. 14)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;<em>re-arranging<\/em>\u00a0the order of retrieval opportunities during spacing\u00a0<em>without<\/em>\u00a0changing the content to be learned.&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s mixing up concepts. (Agarwal &amp; Bain, pgs. 106-107).<\/p>\n<p>Consider this basic example of practice problems in any math course:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Problem Set 1: AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD [i.e., blocked practice]<br \/>\nProblem Set 2: ABCD BCAD DBAC CBDA [i.e., interleaved practice]<\/p>\n<p>Both have the same practice problems, but they&#8217;ve been re-arranged. If letters represented addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division,\u00a0<strong>the students need to be able to choose and retrieve the appropriate strategy &#8212;\u00a0<em>vs. plug-and-chug without thinking about which strategy to use.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.retrievalpractice.org\/interleaving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retrievalpractice.org\/interleaving<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interleaving: How Mixed Practice Can Boost Learning&#8212; from effectiviology.com Excerpt: Interleaving\u00a0is a learning technique that involves mixing together different topics or forms of practice, in order to facilitate learning. For example, if a student uses interleaving while preparing for an exam, they can mix up different types of questions, rather than study only one type [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,260,200,286,346,343,215,98,71,3,373,419,119,46,825,102,838,223,78,62,173,101,836,217,66,89,50,188,118,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colleges","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-corporate-universities","category-digital-learning","category-distance-education","category-education","category-educational-games-serious-games","category-elearning","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-homeschoolinghomeschoolers","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-law-schools","category-learning","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-theories","category-memory","category-online-learning","category-pedagogy","category-psychology","category-remote-teaching-learning","category-research","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-teaching-online","category-training-corporate-universities","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73531"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73536,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73531\/revisions\/73536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}