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LEARNING BY TEACHING OTHERS IS EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE – A NEW STUDY TESTED A KEY
REASON WHY

Published 12 Oct 2022

The learning-by-teaching effect has been demonstrated in many studies. Students
who spend time teaching what they’ve learned go on to show better understanding
and knowledge retention than students who simply spend the same time
re-studying. What remains unresolved, however, is exactly why teaching helps the
teacher better understand and retain what they’ve learned.



For a new study in Applied Cognitive Psychology researchers led by Aloysius Wei
Lun Koh set out to test their theory that teaching improves the teacher’s
learning because it compels the teacher to retrieve what they’ve previously
studied. In other words, they believe the learning benefit of teaching is simply
another manifestation of the well-known “testing effect” – the way that bringing
to mind what we’ve previously studied leads to deeper and longer-lasting
acquisition of that information than more time spent passively re-studying.

The researchers recruited 124 students and asked them spend ten minutes studying
a text, with accompanying figures, about the Doppler Effect and soundwaves – a
topic about which none of them had any previous knowledge – with a view to
teaching the material themselves afterwards without notes. Participants were
told they could take notes while studying but not keep them for the next stage.

After the study phase, the participants were divided into four groups. In one
group participants spent five minutes being filmed alone while they stood and
delivered a lesson on the study material without notes (they could use a blank
flip chart to draw figures if they wanted). The other groups either spent the
same time completing multiplication arithmetic; standing up and teaching
verbatim from a set script (including making reference to pre-drawn figures on a
white board); or writing down all they could remember from the text (i.e. a form
of retrieval practice designed to induce the testing effect).

A week later, all the participants returned to the lab for a surprise test of
their knowledge and comprehension of the original study text in the form of six
free-response questions that required them to explain key concepts from the
study materials.

The critical finding is that the teaching-without-notes group outperformed the
group that had spent the same time completing arithmetic problems and the group
that had taught from a script, but so too did the group who simply spent the
same time retrieving what they’d learned. In fact, the final comprehension
performance of the teaching-without-notes group and the retrieval-practice group
was comparable.

The researchers said their results suggest that “the benefits of the
learning-by-teaching strategy are attributable to retrieval practice; that is,
the robust learning-by-teaching strategy works but only when the teaching
involves retrieving the taught materials.”

The new findings don’t undermine the notion of teaching as an effect learning
method, but they have practical implications for how the learning-by-teaching
approach is applied in education and training. “In order to insure that students
and tutors learn and retain the educational material that they have prepared and
presented in class, they ought to internalize the to-be-presented material prior
to communicating it to an audience, rather than rely on study notes during the
presentation process”, the researchers said.

Critical readers may take issue with the lack of realism in the study – there
was no audience of learners in either of the teaching conditions and therefore
no interaction, which surely also plays a part in the learning benefits of
teaching. Also, participants in all groups were originally primed to expect to
have to teach the material, which may have had learning benefits in itself –
perhaps the retrieval group would not have matched the comprehension of the
teaching-without-notes group without being primed in this way.

Lun Koh and colleagues acknowledged some of these issues and they called on
further research to “assess the importance of retrieval practice across a
variety of teaching scenarios and activities.”

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