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Direct linkMetcalfe, Janet; Huelser, Barbie J. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Many recent studies have shown that memory for correct answers is enhanced when an error is committed and then corrected, as compared to when the correct answer is provided without intervening error commission. The fact that the kind of errors that produced such a benefit, in past research, were those that were semantically related to the correct…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Memory, Learning Processes, Error Patterns
Metcalfe, Janet; Schwartz, Bennett L.; Bloom, Paul A. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Theories of study time allocation and of curiosity suggest that people are most engaged with and want to devote their time to materials that are not completely mastered but also are not so difficult that they might be impossible. Their curiosity is thought to be triggered by items that are almost known, or are in what is sometimes called theregion…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Metacognition, Personality Traits, Response Style (Tests)
