But are you testing what you taught several weeks ago, or what students crammed the night before from the text and their lecture notes.
On Nov 22, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Christopher Green wrote: > I'm thinking: recent effect. If you only test what you taught today, but not > what you taught six or twelve weeks ago, of course you'll get better > "results." > > Chris > ----- > Christopher D. Green > Department of Psychology > York University > Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 > Canada > > [email protected] > >> On Nov 22, 2013, at 6:58 AM, Paul C Bernhardt <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I have an idea. Every class meeting is nothing but exam and assessment from >> start to finish. More must be better, right? >> >> More seriously: do we know the optimum ratio of testing to learning >> objectives covered? At what point are there diminishing returns? >> >> Paul >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Nov 21, 2013, at 9:12 PM, "Christopher Green" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> As though you didn't have enough people telling you how to teach already. >>> Still, interesting finding. >>> >>> http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0079774?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+plosone%2FPLoSONE+%28PLOS+ONE+Alerts%3A+New+Articles%29 >>> >>> Chris Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=30412 or send a blank email to leave-30412-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
