Rethinking the Use of Tests: A Meta-Analysis of Practice Testing
Across ages Foundations of optimal learning Attention and memory
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Supports (2)
| Claim | Basis |
|---|---|
| C0 | Meta: practice testing beats restudy/rereading, also on transfer outcomes; C0 ledger 2026-09-08 (survived). |
| K06 (candidate) | Note carries the bank kill sentence behind K06 (group K06); no change in review |
Review state: first-pass draft, pending human review.
Source note (Swedish, verbatim from the Kunskapsbank)
Syntes: Adesope et al. 2017 — practice testing meta (LEARN-002)
Källa: Adesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan (2017). Rethinking the Use of Tests… Review of Educational Research, 87(3), 659–701. https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654316689306
Metadata
- ID:
LEARN-002 - Tier: meta
- N / design: meta-analys (118 artiklar; 272 ES; N=15 427)
- Population: övergripande (klassrum g≈0,67 ≈ labb)
- Subject: Rethinking the Use of Tests: A Meta-Analysis of Practice Testing
Finding
- Övergripande g ≈ 0,61 (fixed) / 0,70 (random) för practice tests vs icke-testande villkor.
- Vs restudy: g ≈ 0,51; vs filler/ingen aktivitet: g ≈ 0,93.
- Format: short-answer g≈0,80; multiple-choice g≈0,70; effekt även när praktik- och slutformat skiljer sig.
- Klassrum ≈ labb (g≈0,67 vs 0,62). Retention-utfall starkare än blandade retention+transfer.
- Feedback hjälper men effekt även utan (g≈0,63 vs 0,60).
Mechanism
Retrieval practice (practice tests) stärker retention mer än restudy via test-enhanced learning.
Limits
Heterogenitet hög; transfer mer blygsam; många studier HE/labb trots klassrumssektion.
This claim dies if …
Meta där retrieval/spacing/interleaving förlorar mot reread/massed under ekologisk klassrumstid med delayed closed-book.
Swedish implication
Start retrieval/spacing/interleaving i planering; measure delayed closed-book, inte bara lektionstest.
Links
Metadata as recorded
- Titel
- Rethinking the Use of Tests: A Meta-Analysis of Practice Testing
- Författare
- Adesope, O. O.; Trevisan, D. A.; Sundararajan, N.
- År
- 2017
- Källa/DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654316689306
- Tidskrift
- Review of Educational Research, 87(3), 659–701
- Typ
- meta-analys (118 artiklar; 272 ES; N=15 427)
- Åldersgrupp
- övergripande (klassrum g≈0,67 ≈ labb)
- Teman
- optimalt-larande-grunder; uppmarksamhet-och-minne
- Sparade fil
- Adesope-etal-2017-practice-testing-meta.pdf (fulltext)
- Hämtad
- 2026-09-07
- ID
- LEARN-002
- Tier
- meta
- Köpflagga
- NEJ (fulltext sparad via författar-/arkivkopia)
Original files held in the project (not published): Adesope-etal-2017-practice-testing-meta.pdf