Category Archives: testing effect

Learn before testing or test before learning?

Posted on July 20, 2013 by Sally Jordan

I’m just catching up on my reading of New Scientist and in last week’s (13th July) issue I have found this from a ‘one minute’ interview with Anant Agarwal, president of the edX MOOC provider. Question: What was the first … Continue reading →

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Quote of the day

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Sally Jordan

I’m not sure about the detail of this one, but as a physicist I couldn’t resist the analogy between quantum mechanics and the testing effect! ‘The testing effect represents a conundrum, a small version of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in … Continue reading →

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The testing effect

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Sally Jordan

This will be my final post that picks up a theme from CAA 2011 , but the potential implications of this one are massive. For the past few weeks I have been trying to get my head around the significance of the ideas I was … Continue reading →

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