The effect of a final exam on long-term retention.
Testing on a final exam in a college course improved long-term retention over material that had not been tested on the final. Students from an upper level psychology course took a long-term retention test, four to five months after the end of the course. For half of the items, a related question had been on the final. For the remaining half, a related question had appeared on an earlier exam, but not the final. On the long-term retention test, percent correct was 79% when a related question had appeared on the final and 67% when a related question had not appeared on the final. These results have both theoretical and practical implications.
a Rutgers University.
Arnold Lewis
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D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011584:Psychology / Q000193:education; D012153:Retention, Psychology
distributed study; generalization; testing effect