distributed practice

noun

1. psychol learning with reasonably long intervals between separate occasions of learning Compare massed practice

Example Sentences

“Our system employs a symbiotic collection of highly effective pedagogical techniques such as distributed practice, layering and mixed review.”

From Washington Post

Instead, students and teachers might discover the rewards of distributed practice, returning again and again to the same material while adding more depth and nuance each time.

From Scientific American

Both distributed practice and interleaving enhance learning in part because they introduce what University of California, Los Angeles, psychologist Robert Bjork has termed “desirable difficulties”—that is, they make learning harder.

From Scientific American

The first is distributed practice, or spacing out exposures to the material to be learned at intervals spread out in time.

From Scientific American

The opposite of distributed practice—cramming—is the technique that now reigns in schools, and that’s true for a reason.

From Scientific American