Teaching to the test… or testing to teach: Exams requiring higher order thinking skills encourage greater conceptual understanding

JL Jensen, MA McDaniel, SM Woodard… - Educational Psychology …, 2014 - Springer
In order to test the effect of exam-question level on fostering student conceptual
understanding, low-level and high-level quizzes and exams were administered in two …

Teachers' and students' belief systems about the self-regulation of learning

MJ Lawson, S Vosniadou, P Van Deur, M Wyra… - Educational Psychology …, 2019 - Springer
Contemporary theories of learning and instruction emphasise the importance of students
knowing how to effectively regulate their learning. A large body of research indicates that …

Perceiving effort as poor learning: The misinterpreted-effort hypothesis of how experienced effort and perceived learning relate to study strategy choice

A Kirk-Johnson, BM Galla, SH Fraundorf - Cognitive psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
How do learners make decisions about how, what, and when to study, and why are their
decisions sometimes ineffective for learning? In three studies, learners experienced a pair of …

Retrieval potentiates new learning: A theoretical and meta-analytic review.

JCK Chan, CA Meissner, SD Davis - 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported online in Psychological
Bulletin on Oct 5 2020 (see record 2020-74925-001). In the article, the Appendix and …

Examining the testing effect in university teaching: Retrievability and question format matter

S Greving, T Richter - Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Review of learned material is crucial for the learning process. One approach that promises
to increase the effectiveness of reviewing during learning is to answer questions about the …

Working memory capacity and recall from long-term memory: Examining the influences of encoding strategies, study time allocation, search efficiency, and monitoring …

N Unsworth - … of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
The relation between working memory capacity (WMC) and recall from long-term memory
(LTM) was examined in the current study. Participants performed multiple measures of …

Demystifying omega squared: Practical guidance for effect size in common analysis of variance designs.

ADA Kroes, JR Finley - Psychological Methods, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Omega squared (ω^ 2) is a measure of effect size for analysis of variance (ANOVA)
designs. It is less biased than eta squared, but reported less often. This is in part due to lack …

Testing enhances both encoding and retrieval for both tested and untested items

KW Cho, JH Neely, S Crocco… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In forward testing effects, taking a test enhances memory for subsequently studied material.
These effects have been observed for previously studied and tested items, a potentially item …

Thinking about thinking about thinking… & feeling: A model for metacognitive and meta‐affective processes in task engagement

AK Thomas, AN Wulff, D Landinez… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Metacognition, or thinking about thinking, is a phenomenon that has received much attention
across the numerous fields of Psychological Science. The overarching goal has centered on …

Is memory organized by temporal contiguity?

DL Hintzman - Memory & cognition, 2016 - Springer
The hypotheses that memories are ordered according to time and that contiguity is central to
learning have recently reemerged in the human memory literature. This article reviews some …