Did you know that asking students to intentionally make a mistake and correct it can actually improve their learning? A recent study had students either restudy material by underlining key information, write down what they remember after a lesson, or create and correct plausible conceptual errors. In a test a week later, those who created and corrected the errors outperformed the recall group by 0.51 SD and outperformed the restudy group by 1.00 SD! Read more here:
Qiang, X., Ma, X., & Li, T. (2025). Learning from errors: deliberate errors enhance learning. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 82, Article 102379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102379