Over the last decade, a large body of literature on the benefits of testing (Roediger et al., 2011) has become connected with and articulated through the language and conceptual toolkit of cognitive science. The evidence is clear: testing raises pupil …
Dig around the retrieval practice and test enhanced learning research and you will invariably bump into the research of Assistant Professor Steven Pan: interleaving, retrieval, feedback, transfer and metacognitive beliefs. His research has covered the full gamut of test enhanced …
Post testing, backward effects, has largely been the “main course” of the past ten years of retrieval practice. However, there have both been off-shoots; knowledge transfer, errorful generation and elaboration. For the past three weeks / weekends I have been …
Not all benefits of testing are backward facing. Repeated, spaced retrieval practice largely references the backward effect of testing, that is, retrieval practice of previously studied information when compared to restudy, leads to that information more likely to be remembered …
