Distributed practice isn't a term I'm really familiar with. I know and use the term spaced practice which is distributing your practice over a number of days with varying and sometimes increasing intervals between the practice sessions instead of cramming in one long session. I also know and use the term interleaving which is varying the practice problems or tasks (solving problems or carrying out tasks with different concepts, procedures, ...) instead of massing practise on one type of problem or task (concept, procedure, ...) until mastery and then going on to the next type of problem or task.
Maybe the term I'm looking for is spiraling, but I've heard "distributed practice" used as well--to describe having students practice problems from previous lessons to ensure that concepts and skills are constantly used. It's a system that combines the current lesson with older ones so that there is a constant cumulative review.
This might rather be a type of retrieval practice rather than distributed or spaced practice. If you revisit earlier learnt material but go deeper into it, then it might be a spiral curriculum.
"A spiral curriculum can be defined as a course of study in which students will see the same topics throughout their school career, with each encounter increasing in complexity and reinforcing previous learning."
Yes, you're right. I will use the term "cumulative practice". Textbooks refer to "cumulative review" in which they present problems from earlier chapters. Thanks for flagging this. At the school where I last taught, they used the term "spiral" to mean "cumulative".
Distributed practice isn't a term I'm really familiar with. I know and use the term spaced practice which is distributing your practice over a number of days with varying and sometimes increasing intervals between the practice sessions instead of cramming in one long session. I also know and use the term interleaving which is varying the practice problems or tasks (solving problems or carrying out tasks with different concepts, procedures, ...) instead of massing practise on one type of problem or task (concept, procedure, ...) until mastery and then going on to the next type of problem or task.
Maybe the term I'm looking for is spiraling, but I've heard "distributed practice" used as well--to describe having students practice problems from previous lessons to ensure that concepts and skills are constantly used. It's a system that combines the current lesson with older ones so that there is a constant cumulative review.
This might rather be a type of retrieval practice rather than distributed or spaced practice. If you revisit earlier learnt material but go deeper into it, then it might be a spiral curriculum.
"A spiral curriculum can be defined as a course of study in which students will see the same topics throughout their school career, with each encounter increasing in complexity and reinforcing previous learning."
Yes, you're right. I will use the term "cumulative practice". Textbooks refer to "cumulative review" in which they present problems from earlier chapters. Thanks for flagging this. At the school where I last taught, they used the term "spiral" to mean "cumulative".
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