Effects of incorporating retrieval into learning tasks: The complexity of the tasks matters

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 49, Issue , 2017, Pages 142-156

  Roelle, Julian ^a   Berthold, Kirsten ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjunct questions; Expository texts; Retrieval practice; Retrieval based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012014174     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2017.01.008     Document Type: Article

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