Students consistently overestimated how much they learned with answer-revealing images¶

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Currency · newest study 2021 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q3 i? Across experiments, students overestimated learning from images that helped them retrieve the answer. → van den Broek 2021

Evidence¶

van den Broek 2021¶

van den Broek, G., Van Gog, T., Jansen, E., Pleijsant, M., & Kester, L. (2021). Multimedia Effects During Retrieval Practice: Images That Reveal the Answer Reduce Vocabulary Learning. Journal of Educational Psychology, 113(8), 1587-1608. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000499

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Judgments of learning relative to actual posttest recall across the three classroom experiments; the article reports that "students consistently overestimated how much they learned with images that helped them retrieve the answer."

"students consistently overestimated how much they learned with images that helped them retrieve the answer."

Discussion¶

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