No Robust Effect of Distributed Practice on the Short- and Long-Term Retention of Mathematical Procedures
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| Claim | Basis |
|---|---|
| C11 | Preregistered experiment, 235 university students: spaced practice of a maths procedure (permutations) no better than massed one or five weeks later (B = −0.02, p = .91). Narrowed C11 2026-10-16 (extra run 4). |
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Syntes: No Robust Effect of Distributed Practice on the Short- and Long-Term Retention of Mathematical Procedures (2020)
Källa: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00811 (Frontiers in Psychology 11, 811; open access)
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- Preregistered (OSF) 3 × 2 between-subjects experiment: gap between two practice sets none / 1 day / 11 days × final test after 1 or 5 weeks; 235 university students analysed (38–40 per cell).
- Computer tutorial and practice on permutation tasks (from Rohrer & Taylor 2007); final test of procedural knowledge.
- Robust regression: spaced vs massed B = −0.02 (SE 0.18, p = .909); 11 vs 1 day B = 0.26 (p = .103); no interaction with delay; 5-week scores lower than 1-week (B = −0.47, p = .001).
- Authors: spacing may work less reliably for procedural than declarative knowledge.
- Read: full text (Europe PMC PMC7201105) 2026-10-16; not stored.
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- ID
- LEARN-022
- Tier
- RCT
- Titel
- No Robust Effect of Distributed Practice on the Short- and Long-Term Retention of Mathematical Procedures
- År
- 2020
- Källa/DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00811 (Frontiers in Psychology 11, 811; open access)
- Typ
- journal article
- Åldersgrupp
- vuxen-livslangt
- Teman
- optimalt-larande-grunder
- Hämtad
- 2026-10-16
- Full text (fetched 2026-10-16, legal open-access copy, private)
- fulltext.pdf + — via unpaywall: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00811/pdf
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