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Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a pilot project designed to assist student learning by incorporating weekly post-lecture quizzes intended to increase the spacing time of studying. Numerous studies have reported the positive effect that test-enhanced learning (TEL) has on the long-term retention of information, or what is known as the testing effect, and that it is an effective teaching/learning strategy. We hypothesized that weekly quizzes would increase the frequency and time that a student spent studying lecture material and that the result would be better long-term retention of information and increased grades. Using a pretest-posttest study design, we used three retrospective sets of data from second semester baccalaureate nursing students for fall 2013 (n = 75) and spring 2014 (n = 105). Data gathered included: the Assessment Technologies Institute (ATI) Registered Nurse Content Mastery Exam for Fundamentals; the number of students with a grade of <75 prior to the final exam; and the number of students that failed the course. Standard teaching/learning strategies were used fall 2013 (pretest group), while TEL was implemented in spring 2014 (posttest group). For the pretest group's ATI scores, there were 6 (6%) Level 3, 61 (58%) Level 2, 13 (17%) Level 1, and 1 (<1%) below Level 1. For the posttest group's ATI scores, there were 18 (23%) Level 3, 46 (59%) Level 2, 13 (17%) Level 1, and no students below Level 1. There were 52 (50%) students with a grade <75 before the final exam in the pretest group, and 6 (8%) students in the posttest group. A total of 6 (6%) students failed the course in the pretest group, compared to 5 (6%) in the posttest group. The findings indicate that TEL is an effective teaching/learning strategy that had a positive impact on the retention of course material. Limitations include that the study was not randomized, used a small sample size, was conducted at a single institution, and in a single course. Additional research is needed to determine the effectiveness of TEL in other settings and courses.

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The purpose of this bachelor thesis was to evaluate the impact of uncertainty on test-enhanced learning. A within-groups experiment was designed to compare uncertainty under three study and retrieval conditions carried out in a single session; study-restudy-restudy, study-test-test with feedback and study-test-test without feedback. In this first session, 105 Swedish-Swahili word-pairs were presented to each participant. Participants then made judgments of learning on the word pairs. Subsequently, participants either re-studied the word-pair, were tested on the pair via cued recall and given feedback or tested without feedback. Participants were then tested in cued recall tests on the word pairs two hours and one week after the learning session, respectively. Ten participants were tested during three sessions which were administered on a web-based platform. The result indicate that no test-effect was found, and participants scored highest in the restudy condition at the cued recall tests. Judgment of learning score was a significant predictor of final cued recall scores on the final test. / I den här Kandidat uppsatsen görs ett försök att utvärdera hur känslan av osäkerhet att påverka test-effekten. Ett experiment designades för att utvärdera tre olika conditions, en studie-studie-studie, en studie-test-test med feedback och enstudie-test-test utan feedbacki en experimentell inom grupp design. Deltagarna ombads mellan delarna skatta sin skala av säkerhet på att kunna göra en framgångsrik återkallning efter en vecka. Allt deltagande var web baserat. Tio deltagare deltog i studien och de testades under tre olika tillfällen. Första tillfället med tre olika conditions, sedan med två uppföljande test tillfällen. Den första efter två timmar och ett avslutande test efter en vecka. Deltagarna testades på 105 ordpar Swahili-Svenska. Resultatet visar att ingen test-effekt uppnåddes och deltagarna nådde högst resultat på upprepad studie alternativet. Själv skattningen på deltagarnas skala av säkerhet var signifikant som indikator på korrekt återkallning efter en vecka i de två upprepad test delarna.

Cognitive scientists and psychology researchers have given growing attention to evidence of the testing effect, that is, the improvement of students' recall through memory-retrieval practice in the form of quizzes and exams. While laboratory experiments consistently show dramatic positive effects on learning through the testing effect, discipline-specific education researchers have sought to generalize these findings in real, instead of simulated classrooms. The objective of this dissertation was threefold: (1) To survey the current literature on the testing-effect as it applies to learning biology at the post-secondary level. In this review, I consider how further research on the testing effect may be useful for instructors' decisions regarding its use. (2) To describe findings from a qua¬si-experimental design in a post-secondary biology class with low and high point incentives and measured student learning. Although exposure to exams predicted better learning, incentive level did not moderate this effect, an outcome that contradicted recent laboratory findings that higher incentives decreased student recall. (3) To describe findings from a study that compared student learning in conditions where cued exams were in place versus conditions in which they were absent. Student learning improved in the former condition relative to the latter. I discuss the implications of the results in all of these studies for further research and application.

Under det senaste decenniet har testbaserat lärande väl etablerats som ett effektivt sätt att främja hållbar inlärning. Många sorters material och omständigheter har utforskats i relation till denna metod. Endast nyligen har dock individuella skillnader i relation till testbaserat lärande fått uppmärksamhet som ett forskningsområde. Ett område hittills förhållandevis outforskat är relationen mellan individuella skillnader i kognitiv kapacitet och inlärningsprocessen med återhämtning som inlärningsmetod. Denna studie hade för avsikt att utforska denna relation genom att mäta generell flytande intelligens och arbetsminneskapacitet för ett urval av gymnasieelever (n = 189, M = 16.89 år gamla) som använde testbaserat lärande som inlärningsmetod. Resultaten indikerar att arbetsminne och flytande intelligens båda är relaterade till inlärningsprocessen, men att det förstnämnda är så till en signifikant högre grad än det sistnämnda. / During the last decade, test-enhanced learning has been thoroughly cemented as an efficient way to promote durable learning. Many materials and conditions have been explored in relation to this method. Only recently, however, have individual differences in relation to test-enhanced learning received attention as an area of study. An area as of yet relatively unexplored is the relationship between differences in cognitive ability and the process of retrieval as a method of learning. The present study set out to explore this relationship by measuring general fluid intelligence and working memory capacity in a sample of upper secondary level students (n = 189, M = 16.89 years of age) who used a test-enhanced learning method. The results indicate that working memory and fluid intelligence are both related to this learning process, however the former to a significantly higher degree than the latter