Making it stick

@davidfawcett27

Storage strength: A general measure of how well learned that item is. Storage strength increases progressively—the more you access that item, the stronger the storage strength gets.

Retrieval strength: How accessible an item of information is at that given moment.

So how does it stick?Could I plan to do this in lessons?

So how does it stick?Why do we remember some things and not others?

Storage Strength

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My current address

Low storageEasily retrieved

An address I’m on the way to now

High storageLow retrieved

My university address

Low storageLow retrieved

An address someone told me this morning

Testing

• Which study pattern will result in the best test results?

1. STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY – TEST2. STUDY STUDY STUDY TEST – TEST3. STUDY STUDY TEST TEST – TEST4. STUDY TEST TEST TEST - TEST

Hermann Ebbinghaus, 1885

• Design lessons that had high levels of thinking?

• Reduce cognitive overload?• Ensure new topics that are learnt

develop high storage strength?• Order topics to help the learning of

new information?• Practically implement spacing?• Introduce testing which is low stakes

and fun?• Interleave previous topics in a

manageable way?

How could we simply yet effectively...