4 proven methods to significantly raise attainment
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- assessment for learning tells the teacher how well learners have learned something and so teachers can then act, if need be, to improve that learning or teach something harder on the firm learning foundations the teacher has established that the learner has.
- feedback is a process that enhances learning by providing learners with the opportunity to improve their current or recent attainment, by comparing with an ideal.
- mastery learning requires teachers to hold back from teaching harder knowledge/skills/methods until the learner has mastered the prerequisite knowledge/skills/methods.
- retrieval practice or spaced learning requires that practice questions are spaced out over time - rather than done in a block just after teaching - so that the learning can be recalled for longer.
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