Implement successive relearning regularly in university courses using digital delivery¶

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Evidence · 6 claims (6 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q2 · 1 of 1 report an effect size · 6 claims rest on one study

Description¶

The article recommends regular classroom implementation, stating that "successive relearning is a valuable addition to any university course and is easy to implement using digital resources." In the study, students received email links to weekly online practice consisting of fill-in-the-blank questions with corrective feedback, mastery and dropout, in three sessions per week separated by two days.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A digital platform that delivers fill-in-the-blank questions with corrective feedback and records responses
• Weekly lecture content converted into practice questions for three spaced sessions per week
• Per-question time limits so that average exposure is similar to a restudy comparison condition

Constraints¶

• The benefits "were not observed immediately but required several practice testing sessions before they were revealed"

Target Learners¶

• university undergraduates in a large introductory psychology module

Target Learning Goals¶

• retention of lecture material
• metacognitive accuracy
• reduced anxious affect
• self-rated mastery and attentional control

Affordances¶

• Successive Relearning Technique

Claims¶

• Individual differences were not associated with the retention benefit of relearning over restudying [+W]
• Aggregate judgments of learning shift from lower under relearning to higher under relearning across the three sessions [+W]
• Anxious affect and self-rated mastery start worse for relearning but reverse in favour of relearning by the third session [+W]
• Self-rated attentional control improves for relearning relative to restudying from the second session onward [+W]
• Total exposure time per session was significantly lower in the relearn condition than in the restudy condition, ruling out an exposure confound [+W]
• First-pass recall accuracy rises while trials-to-criterion and exposure duration fall across the three weekly relearning sessions [+W]

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Key Sources¶

• Philip A. Higham, Bettina Zengel, Laura Bartlett, and Julie A. Hadwin (2020). The Benefits of Successive Relearning on Multiple Learning Outcomes. https://osf.io/nx4va/?view_only=049ee04aab4f420e9fa0091b3b69b9d0