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Why Do College Students Improve their Learning Performance Across Trials?

Turner, Sarah J.

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2012, BA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
The present study examined students' improvements across trials, and attempted to explain why these improvements occurred. Participants studied simple words paired with values which indicated how much that word was worth if correctly recalled. Their goals were to maximize their scores. The contributions of regulation of encoding, retrieval, study time and output order were evaluated. Improvements were found to come from increased recall over time, rather than from differential attention to the higher valued items. Efficiency and learning to learn also played roles in participant's improvements across trials.
John Dunlosky, Dr. (Advisor)
David Riccio, Dr. (Committee Member)
Sara Newman, Dr. (Committee Member)
Christopher Waas, Dr. (Committee Member)
43 p.

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  • Turner, S. J. (2012). Why Do College Students Improve their Learning Performance Across Trials? [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1334854997

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Turner, Sarah. Why Do College Students Improve their Learning Performance Across Trials? 2012. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1334854997.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Turner, Sarah. "Why Do College Students Improve their Learning Performance Across Trials?" Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1334854997

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)