Self-regulating students choose to complete multiple-choice practice questions until each item has been answered correctly about one time during practice.¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q3
Currency · newest study 2023 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Undergraduates regulating their own practice with multiple-choice questions stopped testing items after roughly one correct answer, matching the stopping point of students using cued-recall questions. → Badali 2023

Evidence¶

Badali 2023¶

Badali, S., Rawson, K.A. & Dunlosky, J. (2023). How do Students Regulate Their Use of Multiple Choice Practice Tests?. Educational Psychology Review 35, 43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09761-1

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Experiments with undergraduate participants practicing German-English word pairs under self-regulated learning conditions with multiple-choice (SRL-MC) and cued-recall (SRL-CR) options. The article reports that participants "correctly answered each item about one time during practice, similar to students’ use of cued-recall questions." No effect size is printed for this behavioral pattern.

"Participants chose to complete multiple-choice questions until they correctly answered each item about one time during practice, similar to students’ use of cued-recall questions."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• In-person but not online self-regulated multiple-choice students completed fewer restudy trials before their first practice test than cued-recall students. — related
• Self-regulated multiple-choice students scored lower on final tests than experimenter-controlled groups but spent less time practicing, making their one-correct criterion comparatively time-efficient. — related