Learning from Errors

This is the 3rd episode in the failure series of podcasts this term. We are staying with the theme of feedback to errors this week. Professor Janet Metcalfe discusses her paper on learning from errors and in particular how one teacher uses an interactive approach, encouraging students to work out why they made an error rather than simply correcting them, and the impact it had on the students’ learning. But as always there is discussion plenty of wide ranging discussion on this topic.

If you wish to access the paper here is the link:

Metcalfe J, Xu J, Vuorre M, Siegler R, Wiliam D, Bjork RA. Learning from errors versus explicit instruction in preparation for a test that counts. Br J Educ Psychol. 2024 Jan 11. doi: 10.1111/bjep.12651. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38212139.