Participants' willingness to skip feedback after correct responses increases substantially across retrieval-practice cycles¶
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q3 i? Skipping after correct responses rose from below half on Cycle 1 (M = .49) to reliably more on Cycles 2 and 3, reaching a level matching their incorrect-assessment rate by Cycle 4. → Matthew Jensen Hays 2010
Evidence¶
Matthew Jensen Hays 2010¶
Matthew Jensen Hays, Nate Kornell, and Robert A. Bjork. (2010). The costs and benefits of providing feedback during learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/PBR.17.6.797
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Cross-cycle analysis of skipping behavior in the skipping-permitted condition; the increase from Cycle 3 to Cycle 4 (M = .85) was only marginal [t(32) = 1.85, p = .074].
"They skipped feedback after fewer than half of their correct responses on Cycle 1 (M 5 .49, SD 5 .36). They were reliably more likely to skip feedback after a correct response on Cycle 2 (M 5 .57, SD 5 .35)"
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Related Claims¶
- Learners' self-assessments of response correctness are imperfect, with asymmetric error rates for incorrect and correct responses — related
- Participants' feedback-skipping decisions diverge from the optimal computer algorithm: they skip after some incorrect responses and fail to skip after many correct responses — related
- When total learning time is fixed, permitting learners to skip feedback after retrieval improves delayed final recall compared with mandatory feedback — related
- Permitting feedback skipping increases the number of retrieval attempts completed within a fixed learning time — related
- Final recall does not differ reliably between participant-controlled and computer-controlled feedback skipping — related
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Participants' willingness to skip feedback after correct responses increases substantially across retrieval-practice cycles |
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Participants' willingness to skip feedback after correct responses increases substantially across retrieval-practice cycles |
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