What is it about?
In this brief essay, I describe how the research on assessment and my own experience as a college professor has informed testing practices that promote student learning by using repeated, cumulative, spaced, and incremental assessments in upper division psychology courses.
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Why is it important?
There is considerable research on using testing to promote learning and this essay describes how instructors can combine validated principles of learning into their assessments to further student learning.
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This page is a summary of: Repeated, cumulative, spaced, and incremental: The secret recipe for improving assessments?, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, January 2022, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/stl0000313.
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