The Effect of Testing on the Retention of Coherent and Incoherent Text Material

Educational Psychology Review

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 305-315

  de Jonge, Mario ^a   Tabbers, Huib K ^a   Rikers, Remy M J P ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Long term retention; Retrieval practice; Text coherence; The testing effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929834021     PISSN: 1040726X     EISSN: 1573336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10648-015-9300-z     Document Type: Article

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