{"id":3992,"date":"2018-11-13T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2018-11-10T14:24:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T19:24:07","slug":"the-limits-of-retrieval-practice-take-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/the-limits-of-retrieval-practice-take-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Limits of Retrieval Practice, Take II&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just two weeks ago, I posted about <a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/the-limits-of-retrieval-practice-a-helpful-case-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a study showing potential boundary conditions<\/a> for\u00a0<em>retrieval practice<\/em>: one of the most robustly supported classroom strategies for enhancing long-term memories.<\/p>\n<p>As luck would have it, the authors of that study wrote up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningscientists.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/6-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their own description<\/a> of it over at\u00a0<em>The Learning Scientists<\/em> blog. Those of you keeping score at home might want to see their description of the study, and their thoughts on its significance.<\/p>\n<p>The short version: <strong>boundary conditions always matter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We should\u00a0<em>assume they exist<\/em>, and look for them.<\/p>\n<p>A teaching practice that works with <em>some<\/em> <em>students<\/em> &#8212; even <em>most<\/em> <em>students<\/em> &#8212; just might not work with <em>my students<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In that case: I&#8217;m happy it helps the others, but I need to find the strategy that will work with mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just two weeks ago, I posted about a study showing potential boundary conditions for\u00a0retrieval practice: one of the most robustly supported classroom strategies for enhancing long-term memories. As luck would have it, the authors of that study wrote up their own description of it over at\u00a0The Learning Scientists blog. Those of you keeping score at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,12],"class_list":["post-3992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-boundary-conditions","tag-retrieval-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3996,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions\/3996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}