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 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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To apply mastery learning we start with assessment for learning, using auto pre assess, to find a suitable starting point to teach each topic. The teacher can ensure that the learner has all the pre-requisite skills, that what will be taught is neither too easy nor too hard, using the Progress on Topic for each topic. Once taught, the increasing interval retrieval practice enables the learners to extend the duration for which they can remember that learning for and improve their accuracy.
The app tracks the learners' depth of learning, this is done by the regular assessment for learning of the timely practice assignments. Since teachers are only teaching a small bite of learning on each topic, the class quickly spirals through the curriculum, so soon the teacher will return to teach more on the topic, on the firm learning foundations created by the previous spiral through the curriculum. |
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