April 25, 2024

The Earliest Study on Retrieval Practice

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Research Retrieval Practice ExperimentReading Time: 2 minutes What can teachers learn from one of the earliest studies on retrieval practice? This post references one of the first academic studies on retrieval practice (the testing effect), by Edwina E. Abbott in 1909 for her masters degree. Other than Hermann Ebbinghaus’ research on memory (forgetting and spacing), Abbott is a teacher’s first port of […]