At our Lasting Learning symposium on retrieval practice #EARLI2025 #Graz, @tinoendres.bsky.social et al. showed that emotional design + retrieval practice led to the strongest lasting learning. 💡 Also: laser pointer = top attention tool 🔎😄👍 #DFG #EduSky Pictured 📸: Tino Endres

Our new paper is out — and already famous for its wild 5×2 design (forehead slap included 😅). We looked at how combining constructive tasks with retrieval boosts learning. The key finding: the sequence doesn’t matter, but the constructive retrieval combo works.

How can we support learning when self-control is most taxed—such as during online learning or long study sessions? Our new paper in Computers & Education shows that developing interest through emotional design reduces mental load and enhances sustained learning, especially under those demands.

Endres, Carpenter, & Renkl (2024) investigated how constructive retrieval—combining retrieval practice with elaboration—affects learning. 🔍 More details: doi.org/10.1016/j.le... #RetrievalPractice #GenerativeLearning #LastingLearning #DFG #EduSky

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@tinoendres.bsky.social @akiesel.bsky.social and I are looking forward to hosting you in Freiburg! Thank you to all our amazing speakers: Alexander Renkl, @akiesel.bsky.social André Assfalg @lakens.bsky.social @freekoudemaatman.bsky.social @priyasilverstein.com Sajedeh Rasti

We’re thrilled to welcome you to Freiburg! Huge thanks to @dwayne7.bsky.social for bringing together such amazing guests. Join us as we explore the vital intersection of open science and theory development—but hurry, spots are limited. #OpenScience #TheoryDevelopment

Cool translingual approach. Creating instruments w/strong validity evidence across languages/cultures increases the instrument's reach, and may reveal important sources of variance that can be missed when focused on one language/culture. https://buff.ly/4fW7sGw #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

(2) Martina Rau will be presenting a keynote on improving content knowledge learning through instructional design that supports representational competency, while @tinoendres.bsky.social will illustrate how and when to use retrieval practice.

📚 New study alert! @tinoendres.bsky.social & Alexander Eitel examine the impact of motivation on the testing effect. Results reveal that mastery goal orientation moderates the effect (Exp.1&2), with external rewards enhancing successful retrieval practice (Exp.2). 🔎 doi.org/10.1002/acp....