Interesting. I bet it has made very little difference in curricular design. This feels like one of those ideas that should be tested by dozens of studies, and then pushed into practice if it really holds up. Maybe at an elite school they would try something this crazy
Totally agree - there's now quite a lot of experimental research showing that interleaved learning is superior to blocked learning but not many large-scale studies in real-life educational environments. We need to find a few institutions willing to embrace it as part of a wider randomized controlled trial and see whether outcomes pan out as expected. Then other institutions might follow in their footsteps. Hopefully this new study will spark exactly that motivation, because our education systems could be missing out on some easily achievable gains right now!
Interesting. I bet it has made very little difference in curricular design. This feels like one of those ideas that should be tested by dozens of studies, and then pushed into practice if it really holds up. Maybe at an elite school they would try something this crazy
Totally agree - there's now quite a lot of experimental research showing that interleaved learning is superior to blocked learning but not many large-scale studies in real-life educational environments. We need to find a few institutions willing to embrace it as part of a wider randomized controlled trial and see whether outcomes pan out as expected. Then other institutions might follow in their footsteps. Hopefully this new study will spark exactly that motivation, because our education systems could be missing out on some easily achievable gains right now!