Rethinking the Use of Tests: A Meta-Analysis of Practice Testing
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Across the studies pooled, taking practice tests helped learning more than restudying and more than every other comparison condition. How much it helped depended on the kind of practice test, the learners, the outcome measured and how the study was run.
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doi.org/10.3102/0034654316689306 · ERIC record EJ1141817
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Adesope, O. O., Trevisan, D. A., & Sundararajan, N. (2017). Rethinking the use of tests: A meta-analysis of practice testing. Review of Educational Research, 87(3), 659–701. https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654316689306
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