Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · Mar 11

Does it matter whether students generate examples before retrieval practice or after it? This study suggests the order barely matters. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Carl Hendrick · Mar 11

TLDR: when the goal is durable memory, retrieving information from memory is more effective than rereading it but the precise sequence in which retrieval and generative activities occur appears to matter far less than simply including retrieval at all.