Encouraging distributed study: A classroom experiment on the spacing effect

Teaching of Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 249-252

  Balch, William R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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