{"id":2175,"date":"2017-07-24T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2017-12-23T20:51:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T20:51:37","slug":"one-size-fits-all-rarely-fits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/one-size-fits-all-rarely-fits\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;One Size Fits All&#8221; Rarely Fits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/AdobeStock_88297958_Credit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2178 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/AdobeStock_88297958_Credit-1024x741.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_88297958_Credit\" width=\"640\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/AdobeStock_88297958_Credit-1024x741.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/AdobeStock_88297958_Credit-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you attend Learning and the Brain conferences, or read this blog regularly, you know all about the well-researched\u00a0benefits of <strong>retrieval practice<\/strong>. (You can read earlier articles on this subject <a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/click-here-the-technology-of-retrieval-practice-in-the-classroom\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/it-aint-what-you-know-itsoh-no-sorry-it-is-what-you-know\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The short version of the story: if we ask students to recall ideas or processes that they have learned, they are likelier to learn those ideas\/processes deeply than if we simply go over them again.<\/p>\n<p>But, does retrieval practice <em>always<\/em> work?<\/p>\n<p>The question answers itself: almost nothing always works. (The exception: in my experience, donuts always work.)<\/p>\n<p>Over at The Learning Scientists, Cindy Wooldridge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningscientists.org\/blog\/2017\/6\/15-1\">writes about<\/a> her attempt to use retrieval practice in her class&#8211;and the dismaying results.<\/p>\n<p>From her attempt, Wooldridge reaches several wise conclusions. Here are two of them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another very important take-away is that<strong> learning science is not one size fits all<\/strong>. Just because we say retrieval practice works, doesn\u2019t mean it works in all scenarios and under all circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>This is why it\u2019s so important to be skeptical. Use objective measures to assess whether and how a teaching strategy is working for your students and take time to do some reflection on how and why it worked (or didn\u2019t). This is another great example of a time when my intuition said that this absolutely should work, but we should follow the evidence and not just intuition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To learn more about her effort and her conclusions, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningscientists.org\/blog\/2017\/6\/15-1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you attend Learning and the Brain conferences, or read this blog regularly, you know all about the well-researched\u00a0benefits of retrieval practice. (You can read earlier articles on this subject here and here.) The short version of the story: if we ask students to recall ideas or processes that they have learned, they are likelier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,19],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-classroom-advice","tag-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}