Henry Roediger III

This project builds on earlier work on Test-Enhanced Learning (TEL), a method for improving students' retention of knowledge in many different subject matters. When students are given a quiz that requires active retrieval of information, they remember that information better on a later test relative to information not previously tested (or even relative to information that is restudied but not initially tested). Active retrieval and feedback during the test are the critical processes that pr...

Achievement of American students falls behind that of students in many other industrialized countries, especially in science and mathematics. This project builds on earlier work on test-enhanced learning, or the use of frequent quizzes as learning events. Test-enhanced learning has been shown to be highly effective in promoting student learning in laboratory situations. The purpose of this project is to import the Test-Enhanced Learning Program into school settings to examine its efficacy at...

In the early 2000s, prior laboratory research had shown the power of retrieval of material during tests in enhancing later retention. The Test Enhanced Learning (TEL) built off of this finding. At the end of the project, the researchers hoped to have moved toward a systematic application of this approach to education practice by investigating the power of tests to enhance learning of text material.