Love trivia? Quiz yourself with our retrieval practices!
/ Pooja K. AgarwalRetrieval practice boosts learning inside the classroom – but we love retrieval practice outside the classroom, too!
Take a moment and improve your own knowledge about the science of learning, research-based teaching strategies, and super cool trivia facts. Go ahead: retrieve, make mistakes, get feedback... and learn!
Quiz yourself and boost your own learning
Join hundreds of educators and retrieve what you know about the science of learning – in just 5 minutes! Quiz yourself with our retrieval practices, share your knowledge, and view responses from around the world. Happy retrieving!
Do you know these 10 trivia facts?
Why do multiple-choice questions boost learning?
How many evidence-based teaching strategies do you know?
What does interleaving feel like?
What do you know about retrieval practice and interleaving?
What's so great about retrieval practice?
Brain dump what you know about interleaving!
What's the first thing you would share about retrieval practice?
I want to share two of my favorite back-to-school activities, which are a huge hit in my classroom: using a trivia fact and using word pair mnemonics. Whether you have new students in your classes or returning students from the fall, K–12 students or graduate students, try these activities to build community and engage students in retrieval practice.
I want to share one of my favorite activities for retrieval practice: I call it Leave One, Add One. Use this engaging 30-minute activity with Google Slides in your classroom and boost your students’ long-term learning.
How can you get students and teachers on board with retrieval practice? Start and end your class or professional development with a trivia question. It’s a quick, fun, and memorable.
Make a big impact on students' long-term learning with the four most powerful tools backed by cognitive science research: retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and feedback-driven metacognition. Access free downloads and our four favorite teaching strategies for each Power Tool.
Encourage student reflection with these four retrieval practice activities (no prep and no grading!): Start, Stop, Keep; Rose, Thorn, Bud; Flash Forward; and Five Words. Quick, simple, powerful.
Lots of students use flashcards. But using flashcards doesn't guarantee they're using retrieval practice. In fact, students could be wasting their time. This week, we share three research-based tips to make flashcards more powerful. Help students study smarter, not harder.
Want a quick retrieval practice activity? Ask your students to Flash Forward! Simply ask them one thing they want to remember 10 years from now. Watch my students share their Flash Forwards about psychology. What do your students want to remember?
How often do you start the semester or school year by asking students what they did over the break? Instead, ask a different question: What's one thing you learned during the break?
On the first day of class, start with retrieval practice. When students walk in the door, have a sheet of paper waiting for them on each desk – and ask these two important questions. On the last day of class, they'll thank you for jumpstarting the school year with powerful learning.
Want to boost your own learning and memory? We can barely remember where we parked our car, let alone what we did last weekend. Here are two quick ways you can boost your own learning – even during faculty meetings!
There are lots of tech tools that make retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and feedback quick and easy. How can you sort through all of them? We've done the work for you. Check out our recommendations! Also, join the Powerful Teaching book tour in a city near you!
What is the optimal timing for retrieval practice? The answer—from the world’s expert on spaced retrieval practice, Dr. Shana Carpenter—may surprise you. Learn about spacing (aka spaced repetition), Dr. Carpenter’s research, and how to incorporate spacing in your teaching.