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The learning benefit of control over studying emerges around age six and increases across the elementary-school years

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q3 i? An experimental study of kindergarten and elementary-school children found the benefit of giving learners control over their studying emerged around age six and continued to increase across elementary school. → Garvin Brod 2023

Evidence

Garvin Brod 2023

Garvin Brod, Natalia Kucirkova, Joshua Shepherd, Dietsje Jolles, Inge Molenaar. (2023). Agency in Educational Technology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Implications for Learning Design. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09749-x

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The review reports a recent experimental study (Ruggeri, Markant, Gureckis, Bretzke, & Xu, 2019) on how actively controlling study behavior affected later memory performance among kindergarten and elementary-school children. The authors speculated this relates to ongoing development of cognitive and metacognitive abilities for study decisions.

"It found that the benefit of giving learners control over their studying emerged around the age of six and continued to increase across the elementary-school years."

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title The learning benefit of control over studying emerges around age six and increases across the elementary-school years
description The learning benefit of control over studying emerges around age six and increases across the elementary-school years
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 2023
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-22
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