Practicing retrieval facilitates learning

KB McDermott - Annual Review of Psychology, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
How do we go about learning new information? This article reviews the importance of
practicing retrieval of newly experienced information if one wants to be able to retrieve it …

Individual differences in long-term memory.

N Unsworth - Psychological Bulletin, 2019‏ - psycnet.apa.org
The literature on individual differences in long-term memory (LTM) is organized and
reviewed. This includes an extensive review of the factor structure of LTM abilities as well as …

An astonishing regularity in student learning rate

KR Koedinger, PF Carvalho, R Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
Leveraging a scientific infrastructure for exploring how students learn, we have developed
cognitive and statistical models of skill acquisition and used them to understand …

Successive relearning: An underexplored but potent technique for obtaining and maintaining knowledge

KA Rawson, J Dunlosky - Current Directions in …, 2022‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Successive relearning involves practicing a task until it is performed correctly and then
practicing it again until it is performed correctly during other spaced practice sessions …

Rate of forgetting is independent of initial degree of learning

K Rivera-Lares, R Logie, A Baddeley, S Della Sala - Memory & cognition, 2022‏ - Springer
It is commonly assumed that the rate of forgetting depends on initial degree of learning.
Hence, comparison of forgetting across groups is usually carried out equating initial …

Younger and older adults' strategic use of associative memory and metacognitive control when learning foreign vocabulary words of varying importance.

DH Murphy, MB Hargis, AD Castel - Psychology and Aging, 2023‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Older adults often face memory deficits in binding unrelated items. However, in situations
such as preparing for foreign travel, a learner may be highly motivated to learn the …

How to optimize student learning using student models that adapt rapidly to individual differences

LG Eglington, PI Pavlik Jr - International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in …, 2023‏ - Springer
An important component of many Adaptive Instructional Systems (AIS) is a 'Learner
Model'intended to track student learning and predict future performance. Predictions from …

Electrocortical correlates of attention differentiate individual capacity in associative learning

E Raynal, K Schipper, C Brandner, P Ruggeri… - npj Science of …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Associative learning abilities vary considerably among individuals, with attentional
processes suggested to play a role in these variations. However, the relationship between …

Rate of forgetting is independent from initial degree of learning across different age groups

K Rivera-Lares, SD Sala… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
It is well established that the more we learn, the more we remember. It is also known that our
ability to acquire new information changes with age. An important remaining issue for …

Forgetting rates of gist and peripheral episodic details in prose recall

R Sacripante, RH Logie, A Baddeley, S Della Sala - Memory & Cognition, 2023‏ - Springer
In a seminal study, Slamecka and McElree showed that the degree of initial learning of
verbal material affected the intercepts but not the slopes of forgetting curves. However, more …