Spacing effects in real-world classroom vocabulary learning

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 763-767

  Sobel, Hailey S ^a   Cepeda, Nicholas J ^b   Kapler, Irina V ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPACED LEARNING; TEACHER; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 80053126590     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1747     Document Type: Article

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