Interleaved practice
Overview
- Influence: Interleaved practice
- Domain: Student Learning Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Learning strategies
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
- Influence Definition: Interleaving involves implementing a schedule of practice that mixes different kinds of problems, or a schedule of study that mixes different kinds of material, within a single study session. It can also involve mixing, or interleaving, multiple subjects of topics, as opposed to blocked practice, which typically involves studying one topic very thoroughly before moving to another topic.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 3
- Number of studies: 180
- Number of students: 9,438
- Number of effects: 374
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.46
- Robustness index: 3
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nature: Science of Learning | Hattie & Donoghue | Learning strategies: A synthesis and conceptual model | 2016 | Interleaved practice | 104 | 972 | 104 | 0.47 | |
| Psychological Bulletin | Brunmair & Richter | Similarity matters: A meta-analysis of interleaved learning and its moderators | 2019 | Interleaved practice | 59 | 8,466 | 238 | 0.42 | |
| Review of Educational Research | Firth, Rivers, & Boyle | A systematic review of interleaving as a concept learning strategy. | 2021 | Interleaved practice | 17 | NA | 32 | 0.59 | |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 180 | 9,438 | 374 | 0.49 | |||||