Dr. Nadia Osei

Spaced retrieval in real classrooms

Principal investigator · Two-year field study, 9 public high schools · 2023 – 2025

A two-year field experiment testing whether spaced retrieval practice survives outside the lab, run with 1,400 students across nine schools and ordinary teacher-led lessons.

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Overview

Impact

1,400

Students

d = 0.41

Delayed-test effect

2

Publications

Effect size of d = 0.41 on the eight-week delayed test. Two peer-reviewed publications, and the spaced schedule was adopted district-wide in two of the participating districts.

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Reviews

Nadia held a nine-school study together for two years without losing a single site. The pre-registration was so clean that reviewers had almost nothing to push back on.

Prof. Helen Marsh

Faculty collaborator

She gave our teachers something they could actually put in a lesson plan on Monday. That is rare in education research.

Andre Coles

Curriculum director, participating district