The Persisting Benefits of Using Multiple-Choice Tests as Learning Events

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 683-688

  Little, Jeri L ^a   Bjork, Elizabeth Ligon ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

multiple choice; retrieval induced facilitation; retrieval induced forgetting; test effects; Testing

Indexed keywords

CUED RECALLS; EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT; LEARNING OPPORTUNITY; LONG DELAYS; MULTIPLE CHOICE; RECENT RESEARCHES; RETRIEVAL-INDUCED FACILITATION; RETRIEVAL-INDUCED FORGETTING; SHORTER DELAYS; TEST EFFECT;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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