Mix Up Your Practice Flashcards
What do learners fail to see when they use spaced, interleaved, and varied practice?
Learners feel the increased effort but not the benefits that the effort produces. Learning feels slower from this kind of practice, and you don’t get the rapid improvements you may be used to.
Why is spaced practice more effective than massed practice?
Embedding new learning in long-term memory requires a process of consolidation, in which memory traces are strengthened, given meaning, and connected to prior knowledge.
What is the familiarity trap?
The feeling that you know something and no longer need to practice it.
What is interleaving?
Mixing up the kinds of material you practice in a session. So, rather than study all of your vocabulary before moving to verb conjugations, and after that to uses of the subjunctive, (AAA, BBB, CCC) interleaved practice mixes things up. (ABC, BCA, CBA, BAC, etc)
