ERIC Number: EJ1214873
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0973
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Retrieval Practice Enhances Analogical Problem Solving
Wong, Sarah Shi Hui; Ng, Gavin Jun Peng; Tempel, Tobias; Lim, Stephen Wee Hun
Journal of Experimental Education, v87 n1 p128-138 2019
The impact of retrieval practice on analogical-problem-solving performance was investigated using a complex, educationally relevant task. Participants studied a statistical hypothesis testing scenario and practiced recalling the material or repeatedly studied it. Participants then completed a final test either 5 minutes or 1 week later involving a novel hypothesis-testing scenario that shared an intermediate procedural strategy and superficial and structural similarity with the study scenario but that differed at a specific procedure level. When the final test was given after 5 minutes, no differences in performance were observed across conditions (d = 0.01). Crucially, on the delayed test, retrieval practice produced superior performance than did repeated studying (d = 0.81), whereby participants were better at applying learned knowledge to solve a novel problem.
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Logical Thinking, Problem Solving, Hypothesis Testing, Transfer of Training, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Comparative Testing
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Singapore
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