Five Minute Disposal

To examine how well participants were able to recall, each passage was divided up into 30 unit ideas that were used to counting up how many idea units were written correctly. For a majority of tests there were two raters, and we found between the two raters scoring “The Sun” was in agreement 97% of the time and “Sea Otters” was in agreement 94% of the time. Our first hypothesis was that recall for the study/study condition will be higher than for the study/test condition for the five minute delay. Our second hypothesis was that recall for the study/test condition should be higher than for the study/study condition for the two day delay. The mean amount of items recalled for the study/study condition and the five minutes delay was M = 14.96 (SD = 4.34). The mean amount of items recalled for the study/study condition and the two day delay was M = 9.41 (SD = 4.83). The mean amount of items recalled for the study/test condition and five minutes delay was M = 10.86 (SD = 5.35). The mean amount of items for the study/test and two days delay was M = 7.59 (SD = 3.45). We performed a 2 x 2 mixed factor ANOVA analysis with learning conditions (study and testing) and delay of tests (five minutes and two days) as the independent variable. The analysis revealed a statistically …show more content…
We did not find a significant interaction between learning conditions and delay of final test, and did not find support to our second hypothesis: recall for the study/test condition should be higher than for the study/study condition for the two day delay. However, we did find that a majority of students report that restudying is their primary study strategy to prepare for tests, in accordance to a third