Learning That Matters
Tea for Teaching
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The Importance of Pre-Flection in Learning
A pre-flection is one or more questions that we have at the very beginning of the chapter and I feel like they are just gold. In a recent study, students who took a practice test who answered questions before learning the material outperformed their peers by 49% on a follow-up test. One argument for it too is that it helps activate prior knowledge. It gets students starting to make connections, recall on what they already know, and sets a frame for them to put new material into that framework.
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