2. Blocked Practice Vs. Mixed Practice Blocked practice are all problems drawn from the preceding lesson or topic, they are distributed or spaced across many practice sets. Mixed Practice are a mixture of problems from different lessons or topics that are intermixed within one practice set. Blocked practice is less demanding on students because every problem is based on the immediately preceding lesson Mixing improves students ability to pair a problem with the appropriate concept or procedure. Mixed practice is more demanding because students have to link a problem to a preceding concept ; however, the apparent benefit of mixing problems suggest that this easily adopted strategy is underused.
3. Blocked Practice a.k.a Over Learning PROS CONS Test performance is improved if learners immediately continue to practice that same task after one success instead of quitting after first success. Affects of over learning dissipates with time, and additional over learning has little affect in further increasing performance. High scores on quizzes and tests administered in less than one week period. Experiments has shown that requiring students to work more than a few consecutive problems of the same type would boost subsequent test scores by negligible amounts when tests were delayed.
