Cumulative Testing Makes Learning Last | TAPP Radio 4

Cumulative testing enhances long-term learning, preparing students for final exams, later courses, and professional careers. The genetic code of others also influences our biological traits. Screencasts help students with course tools in this digital age.

Kevin shares his experience of using cumulative testing to strengthen long-term learning.
Use video walk-throughs to help students navigate your digital course platforms.
Sometimes other people's genes influence an individual's biological traits.

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(2:20) A recent article in Science explores the idea the genomes of parents and others can affect traits—not just the genes within the individual's genome. This concept of "genetic nurture" expands the notion of the measurable biological influences of genes.

• You Are Shaped by the Genes You Inherit. And Maybe by Those You Don't. (Carl Zimmer's article summarizing recent research.)
• The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes (Research article from Science)

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(8:14) In this age of digital teaching and learning, we must be able to help our students navigate their digital platforms: learning  management systems, adaptive learning platforms, college/department/course websites, and more. Brief narrated video walkthroughs (screencasts) are simple and quick ways to provide clear guidance to individuals and whole classes.

• Short Video Walk-Throughs Help Your Students (brief blog post clarifies the point of this segment, providing links to tools you can use and an example of how Kevin uses it in his courses).
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(13:13) In the featured segment, Kevin shares his case story of using cumulative testing to strengthen long-term learning in his course. Using an easy method of adding a few questions from prior tests to each test and exam, Kevin was able to better prepare his students for the comprehensive final exam. And hopefully carry the essential concepts of A&P forward into future courses and careers.

• Cumulative Testing Enhances Learning (Kevin's blog post summarizing cumulative testing, including links to other resources).
• Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (one of Kevin's favorite books on teaching, it further explains the value of cumulative testing)
• Why Spaced Retrieval Practice is Your Most Powerful Teaching and Learning Tool (a prior episode covering a related topic)
• Testing as a Teaching Strategy: Students Learn From Tests (a prior episode covering a related topic)

 

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