How Qwizflow teaches
Four well-researched learning methods sit under the app. The studies below describe the methods; we have not yet measured Qwizflow's own effect on learning.
Retrieval practice
Learners recall answers instead of rereading them. Quizzes and adaptive tests ask the questions, and adjust their difficulty to the answers given.
Spaced review
Ideas a learner has practised come back for review on a schedule. One answered well comes back after a longer gap; one missed comes back sooner. The review list shows what is due, soonest first.
Guided questioning
The Socratic tutor guides with questions, to help a learner work a problem through for themselves.
Mastery
Each topic has a mastery score, built only from answers in quizzes, adaptive tests and the tutor's topic interview. Games, podcasts and flashcards do not change it. A topic counts as mastered once its score clears the mastery bar.
Research we draw on
- Roediger, H. L., & Karpicke, J. D. (2006). Test-enhanced learning: Taking memory tests improves long-term retention. Psychological Science, 17(3), 249-255.
- Cepeda, N. J., Pashler, H., Vul, E., Wixted, J. T., & Rohrer, D. (2006). Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis. Psychological Bulletin, 132(3), 354-380.
- Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students' learning with effective learning techniques. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4-58.
- Bloom, B. S. (1968). Learning for mastery. Evaluation Comment, 1(2), 1-12.