IES Practice Guide
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- recommendation 1 and roadblocks with solution
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Space learning over time
- Recommendation 2 and roadblock with solution
- Interleave worked example solutions and problem-solving exercises
- recomendation 3
- Combine graphics with verbal descriptions
- recommendatio 5
- use quizzing to promote learning
- 5b
- use quizzes to re-expose students to information
- 5a
- use pre-questions to introduce new topic
- recommendation 4
- Connect and integrate abstract and concrete representation of concepts
- Recommendation 6
- help students allocate study time efficiently
- 6a
- teach students how to use delayed judgement of learning techniquest to identify concepts that need further study
- 6b
- use tests and quizzes to identify content that needs to be learned
- recommendation 7
- help students build explanations by asking them deep questions
- Desirable difficulty
- conditions that make learnign slower and more fdifficult BUT lead to better learning and memory, or ability to apply
- Metacognition
- Don't know what we know
- Breaking the illusion of knowing - 3 steps
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wait to test yourself
cue only testing -
roadblock of 1
solution to 1 - roadblock: textbooks contain reviews that only deal with most recent material
- roadblock for 2 + solution
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materials don't provide teachers with large nmbers of worked examples
- solution: teachers can work together on teams to prepare hw sets that interleve - Another roadblock to 2
- Memorizing solution sequens
- roadblock 3
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instructional materials may present verbal descriptions of graphics on a different page
Solution: teachers should preview the instrucional materials that there students will be learning and make sure to draw the students attention to the verbal description - roadblock 4
- these connections are not always made in textbooks, nor are instructional materials prepared to support teachers
- Roadblock for 5a
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some may think this is "giving students the answers" befor they have even covered new material
Solution: teachers should focus class on explaining correct and incorrect alternative to the pre-questions - roadblock for 5b
- teachers may feel that they don't have enough out of class time to prepare and grade quiszzes
- roadblock 6b
- teachers may object that ther eis not enough time, or that there is already an emphasis on testing in their school sstem
- roadblock 7
- smoe students are not motivated