Practice testing

Overview

Influence: Practice testing
Domain: Student Learning Strategies
Sub-Domain: Learning strategies
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
Influence Definition: Practice testing is a well-established strategy for improving student learning. The aim of practice testing is to support long-term retention and increase access to retrieving the "to-be-remembered" information. Sometimes called retrieval practice, practice testing, or test-enhanced learning.

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	First Author's Country	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
American Educational Research Journal	Kulik, Kulik, & Bangert	USA	Effects of practice on aptitude and achievement test scores	1984	Practice testing	19	0	19	0.42
Psychological Bulletin	Pan & Rickard	USA	Transfer of test-enhanced learning: Meta-analytic review and synthesis	2018	Practice testing	67	10,382	192	0.40
Nature: Science of Learning	Hattie & Donoghue	Australia	Learning strategies: A synthesis and conceptual model	2016	Practice testing	374	6,033	374	0.74
Educational Research Review	Fong, Krou, Johnston-Ashton, Hoff, Lin, & Gonzales	USA	LASSI's great adventure: A meta-analysis of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory and academic outcomes	2021	Self-testing	177	71,857	210	0.16
Journal of Applied Psychology	Hausknecht, Halpert, Di Paolo, & Moriarty-Gerrard	USA	Retesting in selection: a meta-analysis of coaching and practice effects for tests of cognitive ability	2007	Practice and retesting effects	107	134,436	107	0.26
TOTAL/AVERAGE						744	222,708	902	0.40