Abstract
144 high school students received either no feedback, immediate feedback, or delayed feedback following a 20-item multiple-choice test covering a meaningful passage. Presence or absence of feedback did not affect the probability of being right on a 1-wk retention test, given a right answer on the initial test. As expected, however, when the measure was the probability of being right on the retention test, given a wrong answer on the initial test, feedback proved significantly better than no feedback, and delayed feedback proved superior to immediate feedback. Results show that the delay-retention effect occurred under conditions approximating those of real instruction and confirm the interference-perseveration interpretation of the phenomenon. (15 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 170-173 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Journal of Educational Psychology |
Volume | 67 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 1975 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- immediate vs delayed vs no feedback following multiple choice test, 1-wk retention, high school students
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Education
- Developmental and Educational Psychology