Tests Enhance The Transfer Of Learning Summary

The Journal of Experimental Psychology introduces the article “Tests Enhance the Transfer of Learning” by Doug Rohrer, Kelli Taylor, and Brandon Sholar from the University of South Florida. Their mission was to determine if the size of the testing effect would dissolve if the final test included questions that had not been asked in the previous practice assessment. The study consisted of two separate experiments. Experiment 1 was made up of 28 fourth grade students from a private grammar school, where 57% were girls. All students began by attending the learning session in which the students were put in groups of two or four. In the learning session the students were shown an audiovisual presentation meanwhile, the student would write their …show more content…
After the practice test is completed, the individual regions along with their correct name are projected within exactly 2 second intervals of each other so that students can check their work and note which ones they got wrong. Another group of students participated in the study only session where the region name is shown on the map in its correct location for a whole 6 seconds, this is done for every region. Students where able to input the names of each region on a separate map found in their booklet as they appeared on the projector. The next day, he students would be assessed with two different test, the standard final test, and the transfer final test. First, the transfer final test was conducted with the students. In this test, the map was not labeled and students were asked to write the region names in their correct location. Later, the standard final test was conducted. This test was much like the transfer final test; however, the names of the regions were provided along side the empty map. The results show that during the learning process, the accuracy of placing the name in the correct region increased during each cycle during the test-study phase while the