and with a grain of salt of course.
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The Science of Smart: Making Homework SmarterAnnie Murphy Paul
Sep. 4, 2013.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/secr ... k-smarter/" . . . According to one experiment, language learners who employed the retrieval practice strategy to study vocabulary words remembered 80 percent of the words they studied, while learners who used conventional study methods remembered only about a third of them. . . "
" . . . Researchers at California Polytechnic State University conducted a study of interleaving in sports that illustrates why the tactic is so effective. When baseball players practiced hitting, interleaving different kinds of pitches improved their performance on a later test in which the batters did not know the type of pitch in advance (as would be the case, of course, in a real game).
"Interleaving produces the same sort of improvement in academic learning. A study published last year in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology asked fourth-graders to work on solving four types of math problems and then to take a test evaluating how well they had learned. The scores of those whose practice problems were mixed up were more than double the scores of those students who had practiced one kind of problem at a time. . . "
I'm all in favor of experimenting with a light touch different ways of learning.
When I went back to college in 1997-'99, I found that I did well with more thoroughly doing fewer math problems and perhaps casually arcing across the same problem in a different way say a couple of days down the road, much like I might watch a scene in a good movie a second or third time. But then, I'm primarily a story / narrative thinker, and this is what works for me.
15 Sep 2014, 4:56 pm
