Untangling the benefits of multiple study opportunities and repeated testing for cued recall
@article{Cull2000UntanglingTB,
title={Untangling the benefits of multiple study opportunities and repeated testing for cued recall},
author={William L. Cull},
journal={Applied Cognitive Psychology},
year={2000},
volume={14},
pages={215-235}
}Spacing multiple study opportunities apart from one another is known by psychologists to be a highly effective study method (see Dempster, 1996). This study examines whether including tests during study would produce practical benefits for learning beyond that provided by distributed study alone. In addition, spacing of both study and test (massed, uniform distributed, and expanding distributed) is investigated. To-be-remembered information was repeated with a single learning session…
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