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How Learning Works quiz

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How Learning Works — Module Assessment

12 questions · pass mark 75%

  1. 1.What is the difference between performance and learning?
  2. 2.Which is a desirable difficulty?
  3. 3.Why can a confident memory still be wrong?
  4. 4.A learner was distracted throughout a lecture and cannot recall it. What failed?
  5. 5.What is the main bottleneck in learning?
  6. 6.Which is extraneous cognitive load?
  7. 7.Why does rereading feel effective?
  8. 8.When are judgements about your own learning most accurate?
  9. 9.What difficulty level makes retrieval practice most effective?
  10. 10.Why does spacing beat massing the same total study time?
  11. 11.When is blocked practice reasonable rather than interleaved?
  12. 12.Explain in plain language why closing the book and writing what you remember beats rereading.
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