Retrieval Practice

Retrieval Practice is practicing remembering (retrieving/getting things from memory).

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I'm doing Retrieval Practice in lesson when my teacher teaches me something new at the start of the lesson and latter on in that lesson sets me questions on that topic.

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I'm doing Retrieval Practice when completing Sparx Maths homework by myself and I'm answering questions from a topic I'm not currently being taught in class.

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I'm doing Retrieval Practice in lesson when my teacher asks me to try and answer a question on a topic where sometime has past since I learnt it and they think there is a chance I may have forgotten it.

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It's normal to forget something I've learnt in the past, especially if I haven't had much practice trying to remember it since I first learnt it.

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Our external GCSE & A-level assessments are linear (done at the end of the course) rather than modular (done through out the course) and so in these assessments I will be required to recall things which I was first taught almost two-years ago.

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Retrieval Practice happens when...

• ...the teacher tells me the answer to a questions I've been asked to try.
• ...I try my best to answer a question.
• ...my friend tells me the answer to a questions I've been asked to try.
• ...I skip a question I've been asked to try.

When trying a question I think I can't answer, I have a lot to lose and nothing to gain by spending a few minutes trying to write my best attempt at what I think the correct method could possibly be.

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Writing down my method helps my teacher better understand what I do & don't understand and so helps them help me.

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Writing down my method allows examiners to give me Method Marks in assessments.

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