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Professional Development to Practice

Spaced vs. Massed Practice
Benefit

“Repetition of information improves learning and memory.
No surprise there. However, how information is repeated
determines the amount of improvement. If information is
repeated back to back (massed or blocked presentation), it
is often learned quickly but not very securely (i.e., the
knowledge fades fast).
If information is repeated in a distributed fashion or
spaced over time, it is learned more slowly but is
retained for much longer.
Roediger III, H. L., & Pyc, M. A. (2012)