Retrieval Practice Skill

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name: retrieval-practice-skill
description: Schedule and run recall or transfer practice for previously taught objectives, with answer commitment, feedback, and spaced re-checks.
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# Retrieval practice

## Overview

Convert learning material into active recall and application. Questions should
diagnose reasoning, give specific feedback, and revisit weak concepts rather
than reward recognition alone.

## When to Use

Use after explanation or remediation, for quizzes, flashcards, oral checks,
worked problems, exam preparation, or a due spaced review. Use the separate
assessment workflow when making a formal mastery decision.

## Workflow

1. Select one or a few taught objectives from the objective map, prioritizing
   due reviews, uncertain performance, and prerequisite value.
2. Match the prompt to objective type: recall for memory, unaided steps and
   transfer for procedure, own-words reasoning for concept, and a justified
   decision for design judgment.
3. Ask one meaningful item at a time in live tutoring and require an answer
   commitment before hints, choices, or feedback reveal the solution.
4. Vary representation and context across attempts. Do not count a verbatim
   repeat or recognition cue as independent evidence.
5. Record correctness, reasoning quality, help used, confidence, and error
   pattern separately. Route a material error to remediation.
6. Schedule the next re-check from demonstrated performance and spacing, then
   return formal mastery decisions to the assessment gate.

## Verification

- [ ] Questions require recall or application rather than recognition alone.
- [ ] Feedback explains why, not only whether, an answer is correct.
- [ ] Material errors route to remediation and a changed later re-check.
- [ ] Practice results remain evidence inputs rather than unreviewed mastery claims.

## Red Flags

- Revealing the answer before the learner attempts the problem.
- Repeating the same question verbatim after an error.
- Equating self-reported confidence with correct transfer.