Interleaving—presenting different concepts in alternation rather than repeating the same concept—improves students' discrimination among similar concepts, terms, and principles¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Interleaved presentation of different concepts improves discrimination among similar concepts, terms, and principles. → Pooja K. Agarwal 2012

Evidence¶

Pooja K. Agarwal 2012¶

Pooja K. Agarwal. (2012). Advances in Cognitive Psychology Relevant to Education: Introduction to the Special Issue. Educational Psychol Rev (2012) 24:353–354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-012-9212-0

q2 · i? · theoretical · r2

The special issue introduction previews Rohrer's review article on interleaving, describing the strategy as presenting a concept followed by a different concept rather than repetition, and stating it improves "students' discrimination among similar concepts, terms, and principles."

"Doug Rohrer describes the strategy of interleaving, in which the presentation of a concept is followed by the presentation of a different concept (rather than the repetition of the same concept), subsequently improving students' discrimination among similar concepts, terms, and principles."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Interleaving category examples improves inductive category learning for visual and mathematical materials, but not for expository texts or word categories — a broader claim this one bears on
• Inserting trivia questions between interleaved exemplars impairs inductive learning when it disrupts juxtaposition of categories, with total spacing held constant — related
• Interleaving during concept learning benefits memory of studied items, with effect sizes (Hedges' g) of up to 0.65 — related
• Interleaving Improves Discrimination — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Interleaving benefits transfer to novel items from a learned category, with effect sizes of up to 0.66 — related
• The discriminative-contrast hypothesis treats spacing and interleaving as distinct effects, with interleaving benefits more likely for similar than dissimilar interleaved tasks — a broader claim this one bears on
• Interleaving is more effective for materials with a low degree of discriminability — related
• All 67 reviewed interleaving studies demonstrated the interleaving effect using very similar interleaved concepts — a broader claim this one bears on