Earlier this year I was lucky enough to watch a presentation by Yana Weinstein and Megan Smith (now Megan Sumeracki) – aka The Learning Scientists – at ResearchEd Rugby (#rEDRugby).
The Learning Scientists are American cognitive psychological scientists who are aiming to increase the awareness and use of effective study and teaching strategies. The main focus on their website is to communicate the science of learning. Primarily, they focus on six strategies for effective learning, which are all strategies backed by research that improve learning. The six strategies:
Inspired by their work, this article focuses on retrieval practice, a strategy with decades of research supporting its effectiveness, and summarises how, using their resources, I am introducing and embedding the concept into my own classroom practice this year.
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