Interleaved practice

Naive (“blocked” or “massed”) curricular design has students doing several practice problems on each topic learned in succession. By contrast, interleaved practice would have them alternate topics as they practice, so that each task is adjacent to dissimilar tasks.

This seems to provide substantial benefits in classroom environments; this is likely in part due to incidental activation of the Spacing effect.

Some relevant papers

Last updated 2023-07-13.