Retrieval Practice Schedule
Spaces and interleaves practice, because blocked practice feels effective during the session and produces worse retention.
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Running it, start to finish
- Replace re-reading with attempted recall.
- Build an expanding-interval calendar across the retention period.
- Warn learners it will feel harder, so they do not abandon it.
What you get back
The output this produces, every time.
- Distinguishes retrieval from review, where re-reading produces familiarity mistaken for knowledge.
- Gives a concrete expanding-interval calendar rather than a principle.
- Warns that it will feel less effective, which is the main reason the technique gets abandoned.
Getting better results
Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
- Interleave even though it feels worse. Blocked practice produces better session performance and worse retention and transfer. The discomfort is the mechanism.
- Feedback after the attempt. Showing the answer before recall removes the retrieval entirely, which is the most common implementation error.
- Test after a delay. End-of-session performance predicts very little about what is retained a month later.
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