The importance of retrieval failures to long-term retention: A metacognitive explanation of the spacing effect

Volume: 52, Issue: 4, Pages: 566 - 577
Published: May 1, 2005
Abstract
Encoding strategies vary in their duration of effectiveness, and individuals can best identify and modify strategies that yield effects of short duration on the basis of retrieval failures. Multiple study sessions with long inter-session intervals are better than massed training at providing discriminative feedback that identifies encoding strategies of short duration. We report two investigations in which long intervals between study sessions...
Paper Details
Title
The importance of retrieval failures to long-term retention: A metacognitive explanation of the spacing effect
Published Date
May 1, 2005
Volume
52
Issue
4
Pages
566 - 577
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