GuySrinivasan comments on Spaced Repetition literature review prize: And the winner is... - Less Wrong

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Comment author: GuySrinivasan 20 August 2011 12:41:35AM 2 points [-]

My biggest takeaway from the research is that it's worth thinking briefly about every new Anki card whether I can make it an effective short-answer question rather than a cloze-deletion.

Er... that's my biggest action item. My biggest takeaway is that research definitely supports spaced repetition + testing far over studying.

Comment author: jsalvatier 20 August 2011 02:37:32AM 2 points [-]

I actually hadn't noticed that Spaced Repetition is testing till this research. I didn't know about the testing effect. I think knowing about the testing effect will make me more effective learning things more generally. I'd actually like to see an stand alone article on the testing effect.