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By completing this assignment, you will practice communication skills as well as show your ability to think critically about the information you are learning. This extra level of processing
After reading Chapter 2 of Make it Stick, make an executive summary that addresses the following questions:
Describe the testing effect
Describe two examples that illustrate the retrieval/testing effect.
Describe how these principles might be employed in a corporate training session your company is considering developing (the topic of the training can be anything you choose, so long as it’s a realistic training choice for a company).
What makes a good quiz/test?
What was the single most interesting thing you learned from this.
An executive summary is a one-page (single-spaced) big-picture answer to the most important questions that the “boss” or head of a project needs to know. In other words, “executive” refers to who the summary is for; “summary” means exactly that – in your own words, what does it all mean? What is the takeaway point? What is important to be emphasized? When I strip away all the extras, what is the key, core message?
For this summary, since you were given specific questions to answer, you should dedicate a paragraph or so to each question. Executive summaries are rarely, if ever, more than a page long, so make sure you’re thorough as well as succinct! For this assignment, address the executive summary to one of two people:
The person you identify as “boss” in your place of employment
The instructor of one of your courses (the “corporate training session” in this case would be a module over a certain topic, e.g. Perception)
Make it Stick Discussion Questions Ch. 3
1.
Based upon the reading from this chapter, what is the best way to study for the upcoming
test?
Instead of using just one strategy to study for the test and repeating study guides
and quizzes in chronological order based on the chapters on the test, I think the best way to study
would be to have a comprehensive quiz or study guide that didn’t have the luxury of telling me
which chapter I was learning. the “interleaved” and “varied” practice methods would be more difficult, but better ingrained memory and understanding of the information.
2.
The book discusses differences between learning methods in the believed efficiency,
actual efficiency, and long term remembering. How are these different for mass practice
and interleaved practice.
For mass practice, believed efficiency was obviously quite high, because although
lots of information would be studied and practiced, it’s much more obvious and easy to feel like
results are seen from studying “well”. However, actual efficiency is not completely non-existent,
but it is among the lowest out of all of the practice strategies given in the chapter. Because the
strategy seems to deliver easy results, there isn’t a drive to learn the material deeper. The book
gives an analogy of binging-and-purging the information, because long term remembering may
happen for a little bit of the information, but most of it comes right back out in short order.
The difference in interleaved practice was an essential 180º turn in the positive
direction, because although believed efficiency was not very high, interleaved practice is much
better for productive studying. Teachers and students don’t usually like it because it doesn’t give
the illusion of easy and quick learning, but studies continue to show that it is much more
successful than mass practice. What students missed in believed efficiency was backed up by
actual effeciency all the way, because unlike mass practice, interleaved practice allows for a
deeper level of learning and better recall because of it. Long-term remembering is proven to be
much better in interleaved practice as well.
3.
Discuss how a partner in your group might employ spaced or interleaved practice in
studying for another class.
Usually I study for any test or quiz by looking through the book, powerpoint, or
given information in chronological order and don’t deviate much from this. This is especially
relevant when I am studying for physiological psychology, and although it is easier, I could
employ interleaved practice by randomizing the order in which I review or quiz myself, allowing
for a broader comprehension and more difficult but better practice for recalling all the
information.
4.
Scotty P. is a sophomore who is taking classes in American history, art history,
developmental psychology, and abnormal psychology.
He is only able to study for two
classes each day. According to the principal of interleaved practice which classes should
Scotty study on the same day?
Scotty would likely take a day to study psychology as a whole because it would
make more sense to most, but according to the interleaved practice principle, Scotty should study
for one psychology class and then switch to one of the history classes to study. Because the
subjects are interleaved (mixed), the ability to recall information in different contexts and apply
it/remember it long-t
