The importance of retrieval failures to long-term retention: A metacognitive explanation of the spacing effect

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 566-577

  Bahrick, Harry P ^a   Hall, Lynda K ^a  

^a OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution of practice; Memory; Metacognition; Spacing effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 16344393363     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2005.01.012     Document Type: Article

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