Structured Retrieval Practice to Enhance Conceptual Learning

心理学（73）研究和开发项目的目标，结构化检索实践，以加强概念学习，是开发一个基于计算机的结构化检索实践程序，引导学生在学习和提高基础概念知识的长期保留的同时练习检索。本研究通过验证精心提取线索能提高提取实践的有效性这一假设，解决了关于人类学习和提取过程的基本问题。 第一个目标是在对照实验中开发和加强学习计划的几个方面。工作假设是，指导学生实践积极重建他们的知识将产生强大的和强大的学习和长期的保留。我们的目标是找出最好的方式来结构和支架学生的检索实践，以帮助他们发展丰富的心理模型的科学概念。这个项目的第二个目标是建立结构化检索实践在两个大的本科心理学导论课程的功效和有效性。该项目解决了认知科学中的两个空白。 首先，该项目旨在为当前的检索和记忆研究做出贡献。 其次，该项目旨在将实验室环境中进行的基础研究成果转化为课堂真实的世界环境中的应用。 这套研究旨在告知本科STEM教育界学生如何学习，并将研究结果应用于教学策略的制定，旨在提高学生对STEM学科基础概念知识的学习。

Psychology (73)The objective of the research and development project, Structured Retrieval Practice to Enhance Conceptual Learning, is to develop a computer-based Structured RetrievalPractice program that guides students to practice retrieval while studying and enhances long-term retention of foundational conceptual knowledge. The research addresses fundamental questions about human learning and retrieval processes by testing the hypothesis that elaborative retrieval cues increase the effectiveness of retrieval practice. The first aim is to develop and enhance several aspects of the learning program in controlled experiments. The working hypothesis is that guiding students to practice active reconstruction of their knowledge will produce potent and robust learning and long-term retention. The goal is to identify the best ways to structure and scaffold students' retrieval practice to help them develop enriched mental models about science concepts. The second aim of this project is to establish the efficacy and effectiveness of Structured Retrieval Practice in two large undergraduate introductory psychology courses. The project addresses two gaps in cognitive science. First, the project is designed to contribute to the current research on retrieval and memory. Secondly, the project is designed to translate findings from the basic research conducted in a laboratory setting into application in the real world setting of the classroom. The set of studies is designed to inform the undergraduate STEM education community on how students learn and to apply the findings to the development of instructional strategies designed to enhance students' learning of foundational conceptual knowledge in STEM disciplines.