When does interleaving practice improve learning?

PF Carvalho, RL Goldstone - 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Deciding how to sequence information takes place all the time in educational contexts, from
educators deciding how to organize their syllabus to educational technology designers …

Why Do Learners (Under) Utilize Interleaving in Learning Confusable Categories? The Role of Metastrategic Knowledge and Utility Value of Distinguishing

R Abel, A de Bruin, E Onan, J Roelle - Educational Psychology Review, 2024 - Springer
Distinguishing easily confusable categories requires learners to detect their predictive
differences. Interleaved sequences—switching between categories—help learners to detect …

Varied practice testing is associated with better learning outcomes in self-regulated online learning.

PF Carvalho, EA McLaughlin… - Journal of Educational …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
In this article, we leverage data from over 1,000 students participating in two different online
courses to investigate whether better learning outcomes are associated with student …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis and antioxidant study of new polyphenolic hybrid-coumarins

K Pérez-Cruz, M Moncada-Basualto… - Arabian Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The antioxidant capacity of hydroxylated coumarins and hydroxybenzoic acids has been
widely described. However, there is little information on the antioxidant activity when both …

How should exemplars be sequenced in inductive learning? Empirical evidence versus learners' opinions.

VX Yan, NC Soderstrom, GS Seneviratna… - Journal of …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
The sequencing of exemplars during study can have a large effect on category or concept
induction. Counter to learners' intuitions, interleaving exemplars from different categories is …

ManyClasses 1: Assessing the generalizable effect of immediate feedback versus delayed feedback across many college classes

ER Fyfe, JR de Leeuw, PF Carvalho… - … in Methods and …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Psychology researchers have long attempted to identify educational practices that improve
student learning. However, experimental research on these practices is often conducted in …

Optimizing self-organized study orders: combining refutations and metacognitive prompts improves the use of interleaved practice

E Onan, F Biwer, R Abel, W Wiradhany… - npj Science of …, 2024 - nature.com
During category learning, students struggle to create an optimal study order: They often
study one category at a time (ie, blocked practice) instead of alternating between different …

Some fungi are not edible more than once: The impact of motivation to avoid confusion on learners' study sequence choices.

R Abel - Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Learners usually prefer blocked sequences (AAABBBCCC) to interleaved sequences
(ABCABCABC), even though interleaved sequences support learners in detecting predictive …

[HTML][HTML] Learning to call bullsh* t via induction: Categorization training improves critical thinking performance.

BA Motz, ER Fyfe, TP Guba - … of Applied Research in Memory and …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Participants performed a categorization training task, where each trial presented a claim
based on an observation, and participants marked which fallacy or bias, if any, applied to the …

Embedding experiments: Staking causal inference in authentic educational contexts

BA Motz, PF Carvalho, JR de Leeuw… - Journal of Learning …, 2018 - learning-analytics.info
To identify the ways teachers and educational systems can improve learning, researchers
need to make causal inferences. Analyses of existing datasets play an important role in …