Text quality after initial study moderates whether free recall beats generative tasks¶

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q2 i? Free recall was superior to a mainly generative task when the expository text was of high quality, but showed an opposite pattern when the text was incoherent and lacking examples. → Julian Roelle 2023

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Julian Roelle 2023¶

Julian Roelle, Tino Endres, Roman Abel, Niklas Obergassel, Matthias Nückles, Alexander Renkl. (2023). Happy Together? On the Relationship Between Research on Retrieval Practice and Generative Learning Using the Case of Follow-Up Learning Tasks. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09810-9

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The review attributes to Roelle and Nückles (2019), who manipulated text quality across two experiments, the finding that "free recall was superior to a task that elicited mainly generative learning when the expository text was of high quality." With an incoherent text, free recall was hardly better than restudy. No effect sizes are printed.

"The authors found that free recall was superior to a task that elicited mainly generative learning when the expository text was of high quality—in this case, engaging learners in generative activities was, similar to Karpicke and Blunt (2011), not even better than restudy."

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