Glass Arnold Lewis, Ingate Margaret, Sinha Neha
a Rutgers University.
J Gen Psychol. 2013 Jul-Sep;140(3):224-41. doi: 10.1080/00221309.2013.797379.
Testing on a final exam in a college course improved long-term retention over material that had not been tested on the final. Students from an upper level psychology course took a long-term retention test, four to five months after the end of the course. For half of the items, a related question had been on the final. For the remaining half, a related question had appeared on an earlier exam, but not the final. On the long-term retention test, percent correct was 79% when a related question had appeared on the final and 67% when a related question had not appeared on the final. These results have both theoretical and practical implications.
大学课程期末考试中的测试，相较于未在期末考试中测试过的内容，能提高长期记忆保持效果。来自一门高级心理学课程的学生在课程结束四到五个月后参加了一次长期记忆保持测试。对于一半的题目，相关问题出现在了期末考试中。对于另一半题目，相关问题出现在了更早的一次考试中，但不是期末考试。在长期记忆保持测试中，当相关问题出现在期末考试中时，正确百分比为79%；当相关问题未出现在期末考试中时，正确百分比为67%。这些结果具有理论和实践意义。
