Testing Effect
A concept in educational psychology referring to the phenomenon whereby learning through testing or active recall enhances long-term memory retention more than repeated reading alone.
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The testing effect was systematically validated by Henry Roediger and Jeffrey Karpicke in a 2006 experiment, in which repeated testing produced significantly better long-term memory retention than repeated reading.
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In 2006, Roediger and Karpicke published an experiment in Science demonstrating that students who underwent test practice retained nearly 50% more memory after one week compared to the group that simply re-read the material.
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