Reading Time: 3 minutes Do we immediately forget information after it has been taught? The first academic reference to retrieval practice is by Hermann Ebbinghaus, a German psychologist (1850 – 1909) who pioneered an experimental study of memory, most known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. Before Ebbinghaus, the “study of learning was restricted to philosophy” (Polk, 2018) […]