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Making learning more challenging

Thinking Deeply about Primary Education

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Optimizing Learning Through Challenging Tasks and Retrieval Practice

Exploring the impact of stress on learning and the importance of challenging tasks for encoding and retrieval. The chapter delves into the role of retrieval practice in mitigating stress effects and building foundational content fluency. Strategies for sustaining challenge in education, including avoiding over-scaffolding and fostering independence in learners, are discussed.

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