Retrieval Is Not a Starter Activity
Like many ideas in education, retrieval practice has suffered the peculiar fate of being simultaneously overused and underthought.
Over the past decade or so, retrieval practice has become one of the most frequently discussed concepts in schools. Walk into enough classrooms and you will find the now familiar ritual. Pupils enter. A handful of questions appear on the board. They answer them silently. The teacher reviews the answers. The lesson begins.
