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Tip 88. Fifteen ideas to improve the Do Now
A summary of all 15 ideas: Adam Boxer has an interesting article about the Do Now here Tom Sherrington makes some really interesting points about daily quizzes such as the Do Now here. It is also worth reading the comments in the Twitter thread here I also really like this post from InnerDrive about not…
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Tip 87. Twenty-one ideas to improve your Low-Stakes Quizzes
A summary of all 21 ideas: The Carpenter et al paper is available here Tom Sherrington makes some really interesting points about Low-Stakes Quizzes here. It is also worth reading the comments in the Twitter thread here I also really like this post from InnerDrive about not letting retrieval practice become gimmicky here General links
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Tip 86. Make corrections quizzable
I first discussed the idea on my Mr Barton Maths podcast with Ollie Lovell, available here Good apps for creating online versions of the cards are Quizlet and Anki General links
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Tip 85. Get your students to assign confidence scores to their answers
Our research paper on confidence is available here You can read about the Hypercorrection Effect here Colin Foster writes about confidence-based marking here Confidence scores assigned to answers to multiple-choice questions is an interesting area of research. You can read more here General links
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Tip 84. Consider providing prompts and cues during retrieval opportunities
You can read about the encoding specificity principle here A good paper to read more on the subject of cues is Diminishing-cues retrieval practice: A memory-enhancing technique that works when regular testing doesn’t, available here You can find examples of backwards-faded maths examples here General links
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Tip 83. Vary the types of retrieval questions you ask
A summary of the 20 different question types: You can find SSDD Problems here You can find Goal-Free problems here You can find Frayer Diagrams here Tom Sherrington shares 10 techniques for retrieval practice here General links
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Tip 82. When designing retrieval opportunities, aim for 80%
A good summary of Rosenshine’s principles is this blog by Inner Drive, available here. Inner Drive also take a deeper dive into the 7th principle, obtain a high success rate, here General links
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Tip 80. Show your students that being familiar with something is not the same as knowing it
My slides with the daft Google demonstration are here. InnerDrive has a good blog post to share with students about how to check if you really know something here You can access Dunlosky’s strengthening the student toolbox here Here is the video about studying effectively General links
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Tip 79. Show your students how long-term memory helps thinking
The slides with my model of working memory are here. If you want a deep dive into the interaction between working memory and long-term memory, then check out this paper and this paper General links