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faceleg   August 25th, 2009 1:25a.m.

Thanks guys!

It's really helping me - I finished all my university's CHIN papers already and am over text books.

I'm amazed at how much I've been learning with Skritter. Thanks!

Also, you (and other users) might like to know: my behaviourism professors approve of the method and say it is similar in many ways to methods of teaching put forward in many recent published studies.

Great job!

jww1066   August 25th, 2009 12:11p.m.

If you get a chance, could you ask your professors what new studies they're talking about? My understanding from reading the Internet is that spaced repetition goes back to the 30s and was thoroughly investigated in the 60s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition#Research_and_Applications

James

george   August 25th, 2009 4:14p.m.

Hey faceleg, thanks for the positive encouragement, it's always nice to hear from happy users, even users with three crazy eyes on their face. Heh heh.

It's also good to hear that we're teaching with the correct pedagogy. We read a number of academic papers about the subject and it was on our minds while we designed the base algorithms, but past that we haven't spent too much time making sure it conforms with research. So, it's a pleasant surprise to know that our organic changes have led to peer-reviewed efficacy!

faceleg   August 25th, 2009 5:59p.m.

jww1066: they were talking about Precision Learning. Sure I might have been off with my usage of "recent". Sorry.

Praise still stands.

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