Spacing Learning
Recommended Practice: Space learning over time with review and quizzing.
- Overview & Tools: Video overviews and professional development materials
- Learn What Works: Expert interviews about spacing learning
- See How It Works: Videos and sample materials from schools
Spacing Learning Over Time With Review and Quizzing
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View this multimedia overview to learn about how spacing the review of key concepts over weeks and months and using quizzes can improve students' memory.
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Overview
Strategic Study: Using the “Delayed Judgment of Learning” Task
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In this interview, professor Janet Metcalfe describes how teachers can teach their students to use flashcards to assess what they know, and what they don't know, and to strategically focus their...
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Expert Interview
Using Quizzes to Boost Achievement
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Listen as Dr. Mark McDaniel describes how short, frequent, ungraded quizzes are useful tools for promoting memory and retention over time.
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Expert Interview
Key Concepts in Spacing Learning Over Time
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Listen to Dr. Mark McDaniel discuss how spacing learning of material over time improves memory, and understand the optimal ways to space course materials.
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Expert Interview
Mastery Over Time
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Two math teachers describe their department's focus on student mastery of skills and knowledge over time. They have developed a curriculum that creates multiple opportunities for students to learn...
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School Example
Quizzing With Clickers
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Middle school social studies teacher Patrice Bain explains how she uses "clickers" (remote control devices) to give short, ungraded quizzes to prompt student recall of key course material. View the...
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School Example
Bell Ringers, Pyramids, and Big Ideas
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Social Studies teacher Bonny Bowen describes how she uses three types of quiz activities to help students master and retain key course material. Related Files: Plainwell Middle School...
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School Example
“I Can” Worksheets: Reviewing Concepts Over Time
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View "I Can" sheets used by fifth-grade teacher Deb Wickerham for review purposes. Students fill in these worksheets during a unit and then use them to review and prepare for assessments later in...
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Sample Material
Screenshots of Grade Reports Tracking Daily Quiz Results By Topic
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View screenshots from an online grading report system, which organizes student quiz scores by the review topics that are cycled through each quarter. The reports highlight areas that need more...
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Sample Material
Screenshot of Interactive Whiteboard Pre-Test With Summary of Student Answers
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View a screenshot from an interactive whiteboard in Patrice Bain's social studies classroom. See how students' correct and incorrect responses to short, multiple choice quizzes are summarized for...
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Sample Material
Lesson Planning: Developing a Review Game
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Use this lesson plan template to design a game that requires students to recall important facts.
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Planning Chart Activity: Building in More Frequent Review
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This planning chart activity can help to examine the sequence of activities throughout a unit or quarter to map out how key concepts will be revisited. Related Files: Learning Together About...
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