The SecEd Podcast: A teacher's guide to retrieval practice

This episode considers how teachers can use test-enhanced learning – commonly known as retrieval practice – as well as spaced learning and interleaving techniques to help students remember/recall the information they are taught.

Our experts discuss what these approaches look like in the classroom and the evidence and reasoning behind them.

We consider activities that work best, what to avoid, test difficulty, feedback, addressing misconceptions, how memory works, how to create the gaps for spaced learning, how many times we should 'retrieve', and offer tips for getting started.

The podcast coincides with a SecEd series focused on test-enhanced learning: https://bit.ly/3NxTmy0