Looking at the title we can infer that cumulative exams are important for this article. Natalie K Lawrence’s study regards to students that enroll to an introductory psychology course, that they will have better long-term memory retention taking cumulative exams throughout the semester compare to those who take a cumulative exam at the end of the semester. But more importantly the study goes into identifying the strategies that students used to help them with long-term retention of class material.
Lawrence is testing to see if cumulative exams help students retain the information in the long run. To prove her hypothesis after 2 months she will test the students to demonstrate how much information was retained from the class. It is important …show more content…
This research was design to establish the possibility that cumulative exams go along with the theory of Mnemonic improvement technique that with the support of distributed practice and spacing out your studies actually benefits the improvement of the memory. The study was …show more content…
In fact her results are consistent in Szpunar (2007) study “a cumulative final exam keeps the material in a more accessible state”. Also, she conducted a series of mini studies to see how the student’s habits of studying or the way they prepare for a test helps them get higher grades. In similar fashion, students “perception and study habits” feedback to cumulative exams inclined towards a positive response. In the article there is a figure that supports Lawrence hypothesis that cumulative exams benefit the students. Figure 1 show that in the x-axis is the scores on fallow-up tests and in the y-axis is the type of students measuring the cumulative section versus noncumulative section with low-scores and high-scores. As presented in the bar graph high-scores students from the noncumulative section scored better versus students in the cumulative exams section. But for the low-scores students in the cumulative exams section scored higher for the fallow-up test than students in the noncumulative section. From the results in relation to the hypothesis they seem to partially support it. Because from what was stated in the article cumulative exams should have helped scored better scores. But it seems that it depends on the type of student that cumulative exams really help for long-term memory retention. Anything
Lawrence is testing to see if cumulative exams help students retain the information in the long run. To prove her hypothesis after 2 months she will test the students to demonstrate how much information was retained from the class. It is important …show more content…
This research was design to establish the possibility that cumulative exams go along with the theory of Mnemonic improvement technique that with the support of distributed practice and spacing out your studies actually benefits the improvement of the memory. The study was …show more content…
In fact her results are consistent in Szpunar (2007) study “a cumulative final exam keeps the material in a more accessible state”. Also, she conducted a series of mini studies to see how the student’s habits of studying or the way they prepare for a test helps them get higher grades. In similar fashion, students “perception and study habits” feedback to cumulative exams inclined towards a positive response. In the article there is a figure that supports Lawrence hypothesis that cumulative exams benefit the students. Figure 1 show that in the x-axis is the scores on fallow-up tests and in the y-axis is the type of students measuring the cumulative section versus noncumulative section with low-scores and high-scores. As presented in the bar graph high-scores students from the noncumulative section scored better versus students in the cumulative exams section. But for the low-scores students in the cumulative exams section scored higher for the fallow-up test than students in the noncumulative section. From the results in relation to the hypothesis they seem to partially support it. Because from what was stated in the article cumulative exams should have helped scored better scores. But it seems that it depends on the type of student that cumulative exams really help for long-term memory retention. Anything