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 …
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 …
Trying to come up with an answer rather than having it presented to you, or trying to solve a problem before being shown the solution, leads to better learning and longer retention of the correct answer or solution, even when …
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 …
