Practice testing
Overview
- Influence: Practice testing
- Domain: Student Learning Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Learning strategies
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
- Influence Definition: Practice testing is a well-established strategy for improving student learning. The aim of practice testing is to support long-term retention and increase access to retrieving the “to-be-remembered” information. Sometimes called retrieval practice, practice testing, or test-enhanced learning.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 4
- Number of studies: 567
- Number of students: 150,851
- Number of effects: 692
- Effect size: 0.46
Meta-Analyses
Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
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American Educational Research Journal | Kulik, Kulik, & Bangert | USA | Effects of practice on aptitude and achievement test scores | 1984 | Practice testing | 19 | 0 | 19 | 0.42 |
Psychological Bulletin | Pan & Rickard | USA | Transfer of test-enhanced learning: Meta-analytic review and synthesis | 2018 | Practice testing | 67 | 10,382 | 192 | 0.40 |
Nature: Science of Learning | Donoghue & Hattie | Australia | Learning strategies: A synthesis and conceptual model | 2018 | Practice testing | 374 | 6,033 | 374 | 0.74 |
Journal of Applied Psychology | Hausknecht, Halpert, Di Paolo, & Moriarty-Gerrard | USA | Retesting in selection: a meta-analysis of coaching and practice effects for tests of cognitive ability | 2007 | Practice and retesting effects | 107 | 134,436 | 107 | 0.26 |
TOTAL/AVERAGE | 567 | 150,851 | 692 | 0.46 |
Confidence
The Confidence is the average of these four measures, each divided into five approximately equal groups and assigned a value from 1 to 5 based on the following criteria:
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Number of Meta-analyses
- 1 = 1
- 2 = 2–3
- 3 = 4–6
- 4 = 7–9
- 5 = 10+
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Number of Studies
- 1 = 1–10
- 2 = 11–50
- 3 = 51–200
- 4 = 201–400
- 5 = 400+
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Number of Students
- 1 = 1–2,500
- 2 = 2,501–10,000
- 3 = 10,000–20,000
- 4 = 20,000–100,000
- 5 = 100,001+
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Number of Effects
- 1 = 1–100
- 2 = 101–300
- 3 = 301–600
- 4 = 601–1,200
- 5 = 1,200+
Number of Meta-Analyses | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Overall Confidence | |
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Confidence Factor | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 |