From the course: Brain-Based Elearning Design
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The testing effect
- Let's start our conversation about the testing effect with a simple, one question test. Heres the question, when is the best time to test learner's knowledge of the training content? Now, your immediate answer might be, "not until the lessons have been presented and learned." After all that's how we were tested all through our school years, study a chapter and then take a test to see if you've learned what you were supposed to learn. Traditional models prescribe testing at the end of an e-learning session mostly to determine whether the learners have passed the class. But this testing practice does little to refresh, reinforce, and remediate the learning. Especially if all that learners get is a completion record, and they never find out what they got right and what they got wrong. The learning process has been terminated. So if the goal is long-term knowledge retention so that what is learned can be recalled and applied in the real world effectively and efficiently, then research…
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