A Better Way to Learn: Helping Students Adopt Retrieval Practice. An Interview with Robert Ariel.

Teaching for Student Success

Dr. Robert Ariel, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Virginia Wesleyan University discusses his research on a simple approach that may help students adopt a proven study method - retrieval practice - that improves long term student learning and student success. If you are unfamiliar with retrieval based learning, please listen to my interview with Dr. Jeffrey Karpicke in episode 4. Helping students adopt evidence-based study practices, breaking years of experience with less effective and possible useless study habits, isn’t easy - but it can be a very important piece in helping students succeed! If you are looking for a simple way to help your students study more effectively and more efficiently, then please listen to this episode.