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Much to the no-doubt-dismay of students out there, who maintain loudly that, well, they’ve studied <\/em>the material, so why bother testing <\/em>it … it appears that testing actually helps folks remember better than just studying<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps equally important, this study demonstrates that students who rely on repeated study alone often come away with a false sense of confidence about their mastery of the material.<\/p>\n

In an experiment in which students either took quizzes or were permitted to study material repeatedly, students in the study-only group professed an exaggerated confidence, sure that they knew the material well, even though important details already had begun slip-sliding away. The group that took tests on the material, rather than repeatedly reading it, actually did better on a delayed test of their knowledge…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much to the no-doubt-dismay of students out there, who maintain loudly that, well, they’ve studied the material, so why bother testing it … it appears that testing actually helps folks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-daze","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7578,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/31\/you_got_to_figh.html","url_meta":{"origin":9010,"position":0},"title":"You got to fight … for your right …","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 31-Jan-05 3:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Lots of jolly news here for First Amendment fans: high school kids are, according to a new study, both uneducated about their First Amendment rights, and not all that enthusiastic...","rel":"","context":"In "School Daze"","block_context":{"text":"School Daze","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/school-daze"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11083,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/ceramic_or_styrofoam.html","url_meta":{"origin":9010,"position":1},"title":"Ceramic or styrofoam","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Apr-07 7:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Kinda cool 1994 study on the energy cost in using a ceramic coffee mug vs. a paper or styrofoam cup, Counting manufacture and\u00a0dishwashing costs, you'd have to use a...","rel":"","context":"In "Coffee"","block_context":{"text":"Coffee","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/food-drink\/coffee"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7609,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/26\/chains_of_love.html","url_meta":{"origin":9010,"position":2},"title":"Chains of love","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Jan-05 2:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"New study out on the sexual habits of teens which finds that sexual partners aren't clustered the way it had been expected, but tend to be spread out in long...","rel":"","context":"In "Love & Marriage"","block_context":{"text":"Love & Marriage","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/love-and-marriage"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38822,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/somethings-link-rotten-at-the-supreme-court.html","url_meta":{"origin":9010,"position":3},"title":"Something's (Link) Rotten at the Supreme Court","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 27-Sep-13 5:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Link Rot\" (or \"Bit Rot\" for the more techies among you) is the phenomenon of \"things on the Internet change and go away or get reorganized, which means that links to those things stop working.\" \u00a0It's a well-known problem on the Internet. 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