'Pretesting' And Other New Ideas To Help Kids Learn

How To Help Your Kids Learn

Pretesting has become one of the hottest areas of learning science. As Benedict Carey describes in “Why Flunking Exams Is Actually a Good Thing,” the idea is pretty straightforward in classrooms: Give students an exam that includes the material that will be tested on the final, but doesn’t replicate that exam. The (bombed) first-day test tunes students’ brains to receive the material to come — and they tend to do better in class.

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