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Learning
Late updated:  2008.04.09 at 16:51 PCT

See also:  -[Psych Studies]- (major jump, etc page)
           -[The Digital Divide]-
           -[Learner Styles]-
           -[Learning and Development]-

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               {Conceptualisation}
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               {Verbalisation}
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Alternative
(blogging, etc)
 
 Stuart Glogoff - blogging 
   http://www.commun-it.org/wiki/index.php/Instructional_Blogging:Promoting_Interactivity%2C_Student-Centered_Learning%2C_and_Peer_Input
  accessed 2008.04.09 at ~~ 17:51 PCT

  Susana M. Sotillo - IM'g
    http://www.commun-it.org/wiki/index.php/Using_Instant_Messaging_for_Collaborative_Learning:_A_Case_Study
  accessed 2008.04.09 at 17:53 PCT
     
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  http://www.mtsu.edu/~studskl/mem.html
    good details on learning,e tc..


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Conceptualisation
            
             
  

Distributed Practice
  
Ruch & Zimbardo:  "To Cram or to Spread It Out?"

Note: The study by Digman was for MOTOR skill
      learning. The early studies (1970's) 
tended to show (need new data!!!!) that for
"ideation" and "verbal" learning, consistent
results have not been found - and it seems
(based on the '70's rsrch) that for complex
ideational learning, massed practice may be
superior.  [Ruch and Zimbardo, P. 225; sec col.]

BEGIN BLOCK QUOTE =================== Say scram to cram
[P. 224]

If you have a certain number of hours a week
to spend learning a new skill - perhaps typing
-- does it make any difference whether you put 
it into one or two long, concentrated study
periods or spread it out over many short 
sessions? The relative merits of *massed*
vs. *distributed* practice have been thorougly
studied in the laboratory for different kinds 
of learning.

For acquision of motor skills, the value of
distributed practice has been clearly shown 
in a number of experiments. 


END BLOCK QUOTE =========================  Say scram to cram

Also note [per Ruch & Zimbardo, P. 225],
if a group starts off with Massed practice
and then switches to intervaled they "catch
up" quickly to the other group which was
using interval/distributed practice. And
subsequent testing of the two groups 
showed almost no difference. 

Again, the results of the studies here were
on MOTOR skills. But, where does motor as
such begin and end? Hmmmm....



The Effect of Massed vs Distributed
Practice on Mirror Drawing

After: Lorge,1930.
       
  Lorge, I. (1930). Influence of regularly
         interpolated time intervals upon
         subsequent learning. 
         "Teachers College Contributions to
         Education", 1930, Number 438.


Links - Distributed Practice

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  -[Purgud.edu page]-
          
  -[MTSU page]-
          


               
   

Verbalisation

  
 

Text-book links per se


              
  

Links