TBers,

This is a reminder that there is a Teaching Breakfast tomorrow (February 22) at 8 am outside Starbucks.  Hope to see you then. 

In thinking about student assessment, here’s an interesting article about how students should study for retrieval of information:

The Critical Importance of retrieval for learning http://web.mit.edu/jbelcher/www/learner/retrieval.pdf

Karpicke, J. D. & Roediger, H. L., III. (2008). The critical importance of retrieval for learning. *Science, 319, *966-968.

Here’s the abstract:

Learning is often considered complete when a student can produce the correct answer to a question. In our research, students in one condition learned foreign language vocabulary words in the standard paradigm of repeated study-test trials. In three other conditions, once a student had correctly produced the vocabulary item, it was repeatedly studied but dropped from further testing, repeatedly tested but dropped from further study, or dropped from both study and test. Repeated studying after learning had no effect on delayed recall, but repeated testing produced a large positive effect. In addition, students' predictions of their performance were uncorrelated with actual performance. The results demonstrate the critical role of retrieval practice in consolidating learning and show that even university students seem unaware of this fact.

I look forward to seeing you tomorrow if possible! 

Chilton

Chilton Reynolds

Instructional Technology Support

Technology Training Coordinator

COIL Nodal Network Coordinator

Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC)

SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta NY 1820

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