Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com - 89 views
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The Purdue study supports findings of a recent spate of research showing learning benefits from testing, including benefits when students get questions wrong. But by comparing testing with other methods, the study goes further.
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the results “throw down the gauntlet to those progressive educators, myself included.”
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“Educators who embrace seemingly more active approaches, like concept mapping,” he continued, “are challenged to devise outcome measures that can demonstrate the superiority of such constructivist approaches.”
