Spaced Practice for 3-Year-Olds – TeacherToolkit
What is spaced practice, and does it improve student outcomes?
This research explores how the spacing effect enhances 3-year-olds memory and category learning to support classroom strategies for deeper, more enduring understanding.
Building in ‘forgetting’ boosts retention!
When teachers teach material in a spaced sequence [curriculum], it can result in more learning than presenting information in a *massed sequence (Vlach et al., 2008).
The spacing effect is a learning phenomenon where information is better retained when study sessions are spread out over
