Episode 10: Helping Students Adopt Retrieval Practice with Robert Ariel
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A Better Way to Learn: Helping Students Adopt Retrieval Practice
Dr. Robert Ariel, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Virginia Wesleyan University discusses his research on a simple approach that may help students adopt a proven study method - retrieval practice - that improves long term student learning and student success. If you are unfamiliar with retrieval based learning, please listen to my interview with Dr. Jeffrey Karpicke in episode 4. Helping students adopt evidence-based study practices, breaking years of experience with less effective and possible useless study habits, isn’t easy - but it can be a very important piece in helping students succeed! If you are looking for a simple way to help your students study more effectively and more efficiently, then please listen to this episode.
References
Ariel and Karpicke (2018). Improving Self-Regulated Learning With a Retrieval Practice Intervention. J. Exp. Psychology: Applied 24(1):43-56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xap0000133
Recommended Reading
Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students’ learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4-58.
Karpicke, J. D. (2017). Retrieval-based learning: A decade of progress. In J. T. Wixted (Ed.), Cognitive psychology of memory, Vol. 2 of Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference (J. H. Byrne, Series Ed.) (pp. 487-514). Oxford: Academic Press.
Brown, P. C., Roediger, H. L. III, & McDaniel, M. A. (2014). Make it stick: The science of successful learning. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Rhodes, M. G., Cleary, A. M., & DeLosh, E. (2020). A guide to effective studying and learning: Practical strategies from the science of learning. Oxford University Press.
Related Websites
Robert Ariel’s website at Virginia Wesleyan University. https://www.vwu.edu/academics/majors/psychology/meet-the-faculty.php?person=0715555