Stoneraise Quizzing

Learning is made up of...

• Short-term memory

• Long-term memory

• Environment

• Thinking hard

Information needs to be moved from the ________ into the long-term memory

• Brain

• Book

• Working memory

• Knowledge organiser

The ‘working memory’ is responsible for all our waking thoughts and is where information is being actively processed, often considered to be ‘synonymous with the consciousness’.

• True

• False

The working memory holds everything that we are thinking about, however, its capacity is very limited, and it can very quickly become overloaded. This is called...

• Brain freeze

• Levels of challenge

• Finding things hard

• Cognitive overload

Pupils learn by recalling information from _________ and integrating new ideas with this existing knowledge.

• a knowledge organiser

• the working memory

• a classroom display

• a text book

Which will you try next?

• Use a ready-made Kahoot! or Quizziz

• Design a Google Form to assess learning from a topic

• Write my own Quizziz or Kahoot!

• I am already confident and quizzing regularly

Regular retrieval ensures that facts and essential knowledge are committed to the long-term memory and that forgetting is less likely to occur. A good way to do this is...

• Regular quizzes

• Copying down off the board

• Repeating lessons

• Interventions at the end of a topic

Through consistent, high-quality teaching and learning, pupils can develop their prior knowledge of important ideas and concepts, committing this to the long-term memory, making the learning of new ideas easier.

• False

• True

The information stored in long-term memory is unconscious, until it is brought back to the working memory upon retrieval.

• True

• False

Regular quizzing in all curriculum subjects will help pupils to commit more to their long-term...