Memorial consequences of multiple-choice testing on immediate and delayed tests

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 407-418

  Fazio, Lisa K ^a   Agarwal, Pooja K ^b   Marsh, Elizabeth J ^a   Roediger III, Henry L ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STUDENT;

ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; READING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS;

EID: 77956462605     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.4.407     Document Type: Article

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