The effect of retrieval practice in primary school vocabulary learning

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 135-142

  Goossens, Nicole A M C ^a   Camp, Gino ^a,b   Verkoeijen, Peter P J L ^a   Tabbers, Huib K ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 84892487266     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.2956     Document Type: Article

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