While it
may seem efficient, students are more likely to forget memorized material if
they don’t reinforce their learning with other strategies, and a new study looks at how
incorporating guesswork into a lesson can significantly boost students’ ability
to recall information. The results from the two experiments in this study show that errors benefit memory
to the extent that they overlap semantically with targets. Results are
discussed in terms of the retrieval benefits of activating related concepts
during learning.
Cyr, A., & Anderson, N. D. (2018). Learning from your
mistakes: does it matter if you’re out in left foot, I mean field? Memory, 26(9), 1281-1290.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2018.1464189
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