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4 proven methods to significantly raise attainment
Each of these techniques is associated with significant learning gain - timely practice is the tool that makes all 4 methods easy for the teacher to apply.
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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. If during the assessment process the teacher finds part of the learning has been forgotten, misapplied or applied inaccurately, then the app makes sure that feedback-dialogue between the teacher and learner is likely to be effective, by decrease the interval between practices. Over time 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. |
apply other highly regarded theory related to learning
Much research tells us that overlearning minimises and increasing interval retrieval practice maximises the length of time that new learning can be recalled for. In other words the most popular practice regimen used by teachers is inefficient in embedding learning and the regimen used by timely practice is much more efficient.
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