How note-taking and note-using affects the benefit of interleaving over blocking.
Interleaving items from different categories is often better for learning than blocking items by category, but research on the interleaving effect has neglected situations in which people can take notes. In addition to the practical reasons for examining note-taking, notes also provide insight into...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 294 - 311 |
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