Retrieving Essential Material at the End of Lectures Improves Performance on Statistics Exams

Teaching of Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 94-97

  Lyle, Keith B ^a   Crawford, Nicole A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

learning; memory; retrieval; statistics; testing effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960303637     PISSN: 00986283     EISSN: 15322802     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0098628311401587     Document Type: Review

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