The costs and benefits of testing text materials

Memory

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 346-359

  Little, Jeri L ^a   Storm, Benjamin C ^a   Bjork, Elizabeth Ligon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent text; Memory; Retrieval induced forgetting; Testing effects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; RECALL; STATISTICS; TEACHING;

HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEACHING;

EID: 79959334710     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2011.569725     Document Type: Article

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