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Should I remind my students of prior knowledge, or should they have to recall it? When activating prior knowledge, it can be tempting to remind students of previously studied material. After all, [...]

A retrieval cue can include a visual image, key terms, a verbal prompt or anything that helps a memory to be retrieved from long term memory. McDermott and Roediger advise, “The key to good [...]

Retrieval practice is an important learning strategy that is both taught by and used in the Assessment Lead Programme. With this in mind, we have included multiple-choice questions of the type [...]

The work of EBE Advisory Board member Robert Bjork has had a huge influence on us. As part of our mission to help teachers use the best available evidence to inform their decisions in the [...]

After a brief hiatus from recording and publishing podcasts over the Christmas period, we were delighted to be able to speak to Robert and Elizabeth Bjork at UCLA about their research. Robert and [...]