Practical exercises should be spread regularly through a student’s learning experience to provide opportunities for knowledge integration.

Practice Principle 1

• Interactions should mirror real-life practice.
• This increases the relevance to the learner, and also increases the chance for information transfer (as the material is learned in a similar context to practice).

Practice Principle 2

Important tasks require more practice

Practice Principle 3

Apply the media elements principles to practice exercises.

• Directions to practice the exercise should be presented in text clearly and visibly near the question
• Feedback should appear in text close to the question
• If memory supports are used they should be visible near the practice question.

Practice Principle 4

Train learners to self-question during lessons that lack practice opportunities.

• Model self-questioning by showing examples of self-questioning  and directing learners to self-question
• The ability to self-question leads to significant improvements in learning
• Exercises which cultivate the ability to self-question should be included within our study skills programme

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