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söndag 23 januari 2011

To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test...

... is the title of an article in the New York Times from last thursday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/science/21memory.html?_r=1

What a pity. We teachers struggle all the time with new teaching methods and it is so easy:
Just give the students a lot of tests

This might be ok if you think that learning just means that you know the facts afterwards but I wonder if it really helps to understand the material and to make your own conclusions?
The tested persons knew more after one week, but how much do they remember later?

I think it is important to have a variation in your teaching to reach different learning aims.