Teaching · For Tutors

Cards that come back until they stick.

Type or paste the terms, then study the way memory research says works: recall before you flip, sort honestly, and let the cards you missed come back. Print the deck as double-sided cut-out cards when paper suits the lesson better.

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The flashcard maker

The worked example decks are made up for practice. Decks save in this browser only.

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What you get

Teaching · For TutorsAlso for Academics · Study Skills$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with: A saved deck you can study on screen in rounds or print as double-sided cut-out cards, plus a spreadsheet of the cards.
Who it is for: Tutors and teachers making decks for a student or class, and students making and studying their own.
Format: Browser tool: edit, paste and study tabs; printed cards (ten per sheet, fronts and mirrored backs) or a printed list; .csv and tab-separated .txt downloads; JSON export and import.
Access: $12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Tutoring business kit ($69) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives: The For Tutors space in Caveat Teaching; also listed in the Study Skills space in Caveat Academics (students make and study their own decks).
Support: Questions about access, an order or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

Name the deck and add cards, or paste a list from a document or spreadsheet.
Fix anything the Check box names: a missing back, a repeated front, a back too long to print.
Study: say the answer before you flip, then mark it honestly.
Run the rounds until every card is known, then come back another day and run the whole deck.
To print cards, print the fronts and backs double-sided, flipping on the long edge, and cut along the dashed lines.

Make a deck

How the rounds work

Drawn for this page. Cards move toward Known one honest recall at a time, and the next session starts from the whole deck again.

Recall before you flip

Pulling an answer out of memory strengthens it more than reading it again. That is why the card shows one side and waits.

Do not drop cards too soon

One right answer is not mastery. Students who remove cards after a single success learn less than those who keep them in the deck, so a known card comes back when you study the whole deck again.

Spread it out

A deck studied across several short sessions beats the same time crammed into one. Finish the rounds today and start the next session from the full deck.

Sources

Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., and Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students’ learning with effective learning techniques. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4–58 (PMID 26173288).
Kornell, N., and Bjork, R. A. (2008). Optimising self-regulated study: the benefits and costs of dropping flashcards. Memory, 16(2), 125–136 (PMID 18286417).
Kornell, N. (2009). Optimising learning using flashcards: spacing is more effective than cramming. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23(9), 1297–1317.
Roediger, H. L., and Karpicke, J. D. (2006). Test-enhanced learning: taking memory tests improves long-term retention. Psychological Science, 17(3), 249–255 (PMID 16507066).

The worked example decks are made up for practice; check any deck you make against your course materials. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.