
Picture this: your class is struggling with motivation but generally follow your instructions and complete the work. They practise lots of carefully sequenced questions when studying a topic in lessons and sit an assessment after a few weeks. Their scores are acceptable, and all is going well.
But a few months later, when you ask them questions on the previous topic, few can recall the key concepts. What went wrong?
Well, forgetting took place. But forgetting is natural and necessary for learning. Research suggests that forgetting is not about memory loss but about altered memory access (for more on the wealth of research into this topic you can see SecEd’s recent series of articles on retrieval practice and the recent SecEd podcast episodes on retrieval practice and also on memory).
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