The Memrise Prize

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What’s the format of the competition? The details of the competition can be downloaded here. The ultimate aim, in a nutshell, is this: real world learners will be given one hour to memorise translations of foreign language words such as house = talo (this is in Finnish), with the quality of their memorisation tested one week later. The competition will compare different ways of using that hour of learning: what's the best way to spend that hour to maximise retention after one week? We are providing a computerised baseline task and final test program, which are available here. Competitors will test their own proposed method against that baseline condition in their own laboratories, classrooms or elsewhere. The difference in scores for the two groups on the test phase will be used to identify the most promising learning methods. These will then be tested on the Memrise system. ..... How will the winner be judged? The competition has two phases. First, competitors will test their proposed method against the standard control method that we supply, and will submit their experimental data and a description of their method to our panel of judges. The best entries as judged by our panel will then be run on a controlled selection of 1000 people on the Memrise website, with the final winner determined statistically by the recall performance of those 1000 after a one week gap. How do I/we compete? We have provided a computer program to run the baseline condition and the final test which should be used in both the baseline and test conditions. To get started on the competition: -Download the task rules and Memrise Prize materials here: download materials -Design your experimental condition for using an hour of study time as effectively as possible. -Run the experiment and baseline condition (which is included in the Memrise Prize materials). We recommend at least 16 subjects per condition. -Send all of your results together with supporting documents to science@memrise.com -Be sure to check out the Memrise Prize Facebook page where other contestants and members of our advisory board will be discussing the competition and answering questions!

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The Memrise Prize