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IT MAY NOT BE INTUITIVE that retrieval practice is a more powerful learning strategy than repeated review and rereading, yet most of us take for granted the importance of testing in sports. It’s what we call “practice-practice-practice.” Well, here’s a study that may surprise you.
Lose the term exam.
“practice like you play and you will play like you practice.”
and also recognize that we sometimes fall into the trap of familiarity. ‘I’ve already seen a bunch of patients with this problem, I don’t need to keep seeing them.’
Instructors should give corrective feedback, and learners should seek it.
the high achievers interviewed for the Fortune article argue that some people with dyslexia seem to possess, or to develop, a greater capacity for creativity and problem solving,
This is for you, 99!
they had to learn at an early age how to grasp the big picture rather than struggling to decipher the component parts, how to think outside the box, how to act strategically, and how to manage risk taking—skills of necessity that, once learned, gave them a decided leg up later in their careers.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found that individuals with dyslexia do poorly at interpreting information in their visual field of focus when compared to those without dyslexia. However, they significantly outperform others in their ability to interpret information from their peripheral vision, suggesting that a superior ability to grasp the big picture might have its origins in the brain’s synaptic wiring.4
compensating skills or “intelligences” have enabled them to thrive.
good introduction to Walter Mischel’s classic research on delay in gratification in children is W. Mischel, Y. Shoda, & M. L. Rodriguez, Delay of gratification in children, Science 244 (1989), 933–938.
Are there studies that also show a 2nd chance - progressive discipline?
