1. Spaced learning and retrieval practice for robust learning
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  Spaced learning and retrieval practice for robust learning
what, who, why, where, when and how/outcomes
Shane Lindsay, Programme Director, Psychology, School of Life Sciences

2. z-test and introduction to t-test
Law of disuse
z-test and introduction to t-test
Ebbinghaus 1885
Forgetting more rapidly soon after learning and decays over time
“use it or lose it” Thorndike

3. Technique Utility Spaced learning High Retrieval practice
Summarization
Low
Highlighting
Rereading
(Dunlosky et al., 2013)

4. Two high utility ways to enhance memory
Spaced learning
Learning spaced out over time
2) Retrieval practice
Effortful active testing
Combined: Spaced Retrieval Practice
Lindsay & Gaskell (2013)

5. Roediger and Karpicke (2006)
Short educational texts on science topics
Recall as many ideas as possible from the text
Roediger and Karpicke (2006)

7. Ways of integrating spaced retrieval into curriculum
Spaced retrieval integrated into summative assessment with Canvas MCQ

8. Ways of integrating spaced retrieval into curriculum
Spaced retrieval integrated into summative assessed with Canvas MCQ
Spaced retrieval in formative assessment

9. Q: Hypothesis testing Q: Hypothesis testing
A p-value is the chance of getting a tes statistic as extreme as that observed, if the null hypothesis is ____
The smaller the p-value, the greater the evidence for/against null hypothesis
Results are statistically significant if the p-value is less than the _________ level
If the p-value < . ___ , then the alternative hypothesis is supported, otherwise you should _____ null hypothesis

10. Ways of integrating spaced retrieval into curriculum
Spaced learning and testing integrated into summative assessment
Spaced testing in formative assessment
Being explicit about module design and study strategies

11. Ways of integrating spaced retrieval into curriculum
Spaced learning and testing integrated into summative assessment
Spaced testing in formative assessment
Being explicit about module design and study strategies

13. Ways of integrating spaced retrieval into curriculum
Spaced learning and testing integrated into summative assessment
Spaced testing in formative assessment
Being explicit about course design and study strategies

14. Further reading
Dunlosky, John, Katherine A. Rawson, Elizabeth J. Marsh, Mitchell J. Nathan, and Daniel T. Willingham. "Improving students’ learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology." (2013) Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14, 1.