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Fig. 2 | Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Fig. 2

From: Prequestions do not enhance the benefits of retrieval in a STEM classroom

Fig. 2

In-class questions and weekly quiz questions. At the beginning of each class meeting, students answered one prequestion over the upcoming lesson, followed by their confidence in their answer, familiarity with the material in the question, and how much of the reading assignment they completed prior to class. At the end of the class meeting, students answered the same question as before and rated their confidence again, and also answered a new, never-before-seen question from the same lesson and rated their confidence. After students’ confidence ratings on the end-of-class questions, the instructor provided the answers. On the weekly online quiz, students answered the same postquestion and new question, along with a never-before-seen (i.e., quiz-only) question from the same lesson, and received correct answer feedback

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