Only individual performance feedback, not general instruction about the testing effect, produced long-term increases in retrieval practice use, and only for students who benefited from retrieval practice¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r2 · q3 · i1–i2
Currency · newest study 2021 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i1 In the short term both general feedback (d = .29) and the retrieval-benefit subgroup receiving individual feedback (d = .34) increased retrieval practice choice. → Luotong Hui 2021 q3 i2 In the long term only the retrieval-benefit group increased retrieval practice choice (d = .44); the general-feedback group did not (p = .08). → Luotong Hui 2021 (2)

Evidence¶

Luotong Hui 2021¶

Luotong Hui, Anique B. H. de Bruin, Jeroen Donkers, & Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer. (2021). Does Individual Performance Feedback Increase the Use of Retrieval Practice? Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-021-09604-x

q3 · i1 · causal · r2

Experiment 2 paired-samples t-tests against the day-1 baseline: both the general-feedback group and the retrieval-benefit subgroup of the individual-feedback group "chose retrieval practice more often on day 8", with d = .29 and d = .34 respectively.

"In the short term, both the general-feedback group (t(59) =2 . 4 3 ,p =. 0 2 ,d = .29) and the retrieval-benefit group ( t(30) = 2.26, p =. 0 3 ,d =. 3 4 )c h o s e retrieval practice more often on day 8 compared to day 1 at baseline."

Luotong Hui 2021 (2)¶

Luotong Hui, Anique B. H. de Bruin, Jeroen Donkers, & Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer. (2021). Does Individual Performance Feedback Increase the Use of Retrieval Practice? Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-021-09604-x

q3 · i2 · causal · r2

Experiment 2 day-15 comparisons against baseline: only the retrieval-benefit group still chose retrieval practice more often (d = .44), while the general-feedback group's increase was no longer significant (p = .08). No direct day-15 difference between the groups (t(88) = .68, p = .50).

"In the long term, however, only the retrieval-benefit group chose retrieval practice more often on day 15 compared to the baseline ( t(30) = 2.49, p =. 0 2 , d = .44), which was not the case for the general-feedback group (t(58) = 1.80, p = .08)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Individual performance feedback increased retrieval practice choice only among students who had actually benefited from retrieval practice (Experiment 1) — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Individual performance feedback leads to more long-term choices for retrieval practice than general instruction on its benefits — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Individual feedback impacted perceived utility only to a limited extent, and general feedback lowered perceived utility of retrieval practice (Experiment 2) — related