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My students are about to start two weeks of study-break before they return to school for two weeks and then head off on exam leave.
If they are looking for an effective study tool for those external exams they should look at doing some successive practice.
A Mind/Shift article I have bookmarked from 5 years ago, outlines the advantages of successive practice (when students practice via techniques like doing practice essays until they can get their answers correct and then repeat that process every few days, by doing that they encode the information much better).
As the article points out:
successive practice is the norm for many activities students are passionate about like sports or music. “Most of your students use successive relearning for almost everything they enjoy doing outside of classroom studies,” he said. For example, a student learning to play an instrument will regularly practice a piece until it sounds good and then practice again a few days later. After the first practice session some notes or phrasing are forgotten, but when they are relearned during the next practice session they are encoded even more strongly.
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