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Retrieval Practice
A topic within The Science of Learning, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Education & Learning.
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No prior grounding assumed.
- BookMake It StickBrown, Roediger & McDaniel, 2014
Retrieval, spacing and interleaving beat rereading and highlighting, which feel effective precisely because they are easy.
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Primary sources and full treatments.
- PaperDistributed Practice in Verbal Recall TasksCepeda, Pashler, Vul, Wixted & Rohrer, 2006· 27 pages
A meta-analysis of 254 studies quantifying how retention improves as practice is spaced further apart.