When I say ... test-enhanced learning

摘要

Anyone over 30 years of age has probably had the experience of trying to learn a phone number. This is a dying art in the age of smartphones; if you haven't had the experience, just try to imagine it. When you tried to learn a new phone number, did you re-read it again and again hoping that you would remember it? Of course not. Rather, you said it over and over again until you used it. To learn the phone number, you used a technique known as 'retrieval practice' (although you probably didn't know what it was called).