The forward testing effect transfers across domains, from verbal text learning to visual concept classification, and across test format changes¶

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q2 i? After testing on three blocks of factual statements, participants classified more new paintings correctly than a restudy control group, showing transfer from verbal text to visual concept learning. → Chunliang Yang 2018

Evidence¶

Chunliang Yang 2018¶

Chunliang Yang, Rosalind Potts and David R. Shanks. (2018). Enhancing learning and retrieval of new information: a review of the forward testing effect. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-018-0024-y

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The review reports Yang et al.'s Experiment 3 in which two groups studied three blocks of artist statements (tested with fill-in-the-blank vs restudy) followed by a block of paintings with a multiple-choice classification test; the quote gives the transfer result, and the review notes Experiments 1 and 2 also obtained transfer with other materials.

"the Interim Test group classi fied more paintings correctly than the Interim Restudy group, revealing transfer of the forward testing effect from low-level (verbal text) to high-level (visual concept) learning"

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