A Spaced, Interleaved Retrieval Practice Tool that is Motivating and Effective

ICER. A tool-design paper showing how spaced, interleaved retrieval practice can be made motivating in a real course.

Authors: Iman YeckehZaare, Paul Resnick, Barbara Ericson · Venue/status: ICER · Year: 2019 · DOI

This ICER paper reports the design and evaluation of a practice tool that combined spaced retrieval, interleaving, scheduling, metacognitive visibility, and gameful elements in an introductory programming course. This is one of the earliest pieces of the adaptive-learning line: a system can make beneficial but effortful study behaviors more attractive and sustainable.

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