Successive relearning

Which 2 highly effective study strategies does successive relearning combine?

Retrieval practice & spaced practice

What is successive relearning?

Retrieval to some level of mastery over multiple spaced sessions

What is mastery?

Being able to answer the questions correctly

What is criterion level?

Number of times you need to be able to answer a question correctly to be able to say you have mastered it

What is trials-to-criterion?

The number of attempts to answer a question to the criterion level

What is the dropout method?

Once a question has been answered to criterion level, it is dropped from the session and you don’t spend any more time learning it in that session

Successive relearning protects against…. ?

Forgetting

With each successive relearning event, it takes …… time to achieve …….?

Less

Mastery

Successive relearning suggests that when you ‘forget’ something, the memory does not disappear but it is made…….?

Temporarily inaccessible

What is a savings score?

The amount of time saved from learning items previously

How do you calculate a savings score?

(trials to mastery for first learning) - (trials to mastery for second relearning) / trials to mastery for first learning X 100%

What did Rawson, Vaugh, Walsh & Dunlosky (2018) do?

Ppts had to learn 48 Lithuanian- English word pairs

Given corrective feedback

What did Rawson, Vaugh, Walsh & Dunlosky (2018) find?

Ppts got a higher % correct on the test if they had more relearning sessions

What did Higham (2022) do?

After each intro 2 psych lecture, students answered 20 cued-recall questions or restudied 20 statements about the lecture

Spacing gap of 2 days

Included a metacognitive measure

What did Higham (2022) find?

Relearning was better than restudying and restudying was better than not doing anything

What did Higham (2022) find about different groups’ confidence?

Restudy group are overconfident at first because testing group get them wrong and feel they will never get better

What did Higham (2022) find about different groups’ anxiety?

Testing group had more anxiety at first but were less anxious as time went on