Optimising self-regulated study: The benefits—and costs—of dropping flashcards
@article{Kornell2008OptimisingSS,
title={Optimising self-regulated study: The benefits—and costs—of dropping flashcards},
author={N. Kornell and R. Bjork},
journal={Memory},
year={2008},
volume={16},
pages={125 - 136}
}Self-regulation of study activities is a constant in the lives of students—who must decide what to study, when to study, how long to study, and by what method to study. We investigated self-regulation in the context of a common study method: flashcards. In four experiments we examined the basis and effectiveness of a metacognitive strategy adopted almost universally by students: setting aside (dropping) items they think they know. Dropping has a compelling logic—it creates additional… CONTINUE READING
Topics from this paper
99 Citations
Three elements of self-regulated learning: Metacognitive functioning, self-efficacy, and study behavior
- Psychology
- 2011
- Highly Influenced
- PDF
Metacognition About Practice Testing: a Review of Learners’ Beliefs, Monitoring, and Control of Test-Enhanced Learning
- Psychology
- 2020
- 1
Self-regulated learning: beliefs, techniques, and illusions.
- Psychology, Medicine
- Annual review of psychology
- 2013
- 665
- PDF
Perceiving effort as poor learning: The misinterpreted-effort hypothesis of how experienced effort and perceived learning relate to study strategy choice
- Psychology, Medicine
- Cognitive Psychology
- 2019
- 9
Metacognitive Unawareness of the Errorful Generation Benefit and Its Effects on Self-Regulated Learning
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition
- 2017
- 26
- PDF
Metacognition of the testing effect: Guiding learners to predict the benefits of retrieval
- Psychology, Medicine
- Memory & cognition
- 2013
- 63
- PDF
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 49 REFERENCES
What makes people study more? An evaluation of factors that affect self-paced study.
- Psychology, Medicine
- Acta psychologica
- 1998
- 170
Study efficacy and the region of proximal learning framework.
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition
- 2006
- 216
- PDF
The promise and perils of self-regulated study
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychonomic bulletin & review
- 2007
- 330
- PDF
Exploring a mnemonic debiasing account of the underconfidence-with-practice effect.
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition
- 2006
- 50
- PDF
Monitoring one's own knowledge during study : A cue-utilization approach to judgments of learning
- Psychology
- 1997
- 872
- PDF
Metacognitive and control strategies in study-time allocation.
- Medicine
- Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition
- 2000
- 379
- PDF
Comparing objective and subjective learning curves: judgments of learning exhibit increased underconfidence with practice.
- Medicine, Psychology
- Journal of experimental psychology. General
- 2002
- 234
- PDF