The testing effect and the retention interval questions and answers

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 252-257

  Toppino, Thomas C ^a   Cohen, Michael S ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cued recall; Memory; Recall; Retention; Testing; Testing effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILINGUALISM; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCABULARY;

EID: 67649550626     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.56.4.252     Document Type: Article

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