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.
Perspectives
Teachers sometimes rely on testing methods that actually discourage long-term retention of information. Simple adjustments in testing methods described in this essay can have a significant impact on student learning if teachers are willing to experiment a little bit.
Jeffrey Stowell
Eastern Illinois University
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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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