Passing the Test: Improving Learning Gains by Balancing Spacing and Testing Effects

Proceedings of ICCM 2009 - 9th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 110-115

  van Rijn, Hedderik ^a   van Maanen, Leendert ^a   van Woudenberg, Marnix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cognitive model; spacing effect; subsymbolic model tracing; testing effect

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE MODEL; IMPROVING LEARNING; LEARNING GAIN; MODEL TRACINGS; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; SPACING-EFFECT; SUB-SYMBOLIC; SUBSYMBOLIC MODEL TRACING; TESTING EFFECTS;

WELL TESTING;

EID: 85102422171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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