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Supporting comprehension: The advantages of multiple–choice over true—false practice tests.

While work on improving comprehension has primarily focused on open-ended generative activities, closed-ended practice tests using inference-type questions may also benefit understanding from text. Four experiments were designed to investigate how practice tests, specifically in multiple-choice and...

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Published in:Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 8; pp. 2580 - 2597
Main Authors: Hildenbrand, Lena, Wiley, Jennifer
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Nov2025
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United States
Reading
Undergraduates
Readability (Literary style)
Educational tests & measurements
Randomized controlled trials
College students
Data analysis
Research funding
Statistical sampling
Textbooks
Descriptive statistics
Latent structure analysis
One-way analysis of variance
Statistics
Comparative studies
Data analysis software
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