Advantages and disadvantages of drill and practice?

Answer 1

Advantages:

• Can be used with large numers of students making it a time-efficient way of conveying knowledge.

• Help learners master materials at their own pace.
• Good drill and practice provides feedback to students, explains how to get the correct answer, and contains a management system to keep track of student progress.
• They can be used to build confidence as more answers are correctly provided.

Disadvantages:

• For most students, it's boring, uninteresting, and unappealing.
• Lacks the 'deeper-understanding' that "hands-on learning" provides, and without perpetual reinforcement, the 'knowledge' obtained through drill and practice is quickly lost (most students only learn for the amount of time required to do well on the examination).
• It has no application in the student's real-world, i.e. rarely will the student make the connection with why these things are important.

• Can encourage competition, which many Western Educators frown upon.