{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/retrieve-the-decision-rule-not-only-the-answer",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9008",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Retrieve the decision rule, not only the answer",
  "summary": "Knowing the label is useful; knowing what makes it apply is closer to performance.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Design retrieval prompts that require the cue, rule or rationale behind a decision. Ask what evidence triggered the choice and what change would make another choice correct. This preserves the memory benefit of retrieval while aligning the practice with judgment rather than trivia.",
  "limits": [
    "Retrieval practice supports many learning outcomes but is not guaranteed to improve every form of reasoning or far transfer. Test the target task directly."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-skill-acquisition-career-dominant-focus"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-450420625BC74F3D"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A 2021 systematic review of 50 classroom experiments found retrieval practice benefited learning across varied educational settings, with most included effects in the medium-or-large range.",
      "source_id": "RS-450420625BC74F3D",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Retrieval is not guaranteed to improve every kind of inference or transfer, and the review had limited non-WEIRD representation.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "When self-testing mostly asks for isolated facts but the real skill is choosing what to do."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Retrieval practice supports many learning outcomes but is not guaranteed to improve every form of reasoning or far transfer. Test the target task directly."
  ],
  "example": "Instead of only recalling the name of a migration object, the learner sees a requirement and chooses which object fits and why.",
  "check": "The learner can state both the decision and the condition that makes it appropriate.",
  "steps": [
    "What cue made this option fit?",
    "Which condition would make it wrong?",
    "What alternative would become correct after that change?"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-450420625BC74F3D",
      "title": "Retrieval Practice Consistently Benefits Student Learning: a Systematic Review of Applied Research in Schools and Classrooms",
      "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-021-09595-9"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9008",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9009",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/change-the-surface-before-claiming-transfer"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-EA04F47374E04549",
      "title": "Learn new skills, turn them into career evidence, and protect the main development edge",
      "url": "/collections/learn-new-skills-turn-them-into-career-evidence-and-protect-the-main-development-edge"
    }
  ]
}