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Comment author: gwern 29 December 2013 07:16:34PM 1 point [-]

I wish someone would test spaced repetition software for high schoolers or undergrads.

What makes you think they haven't? When I look through the cites in http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition the majority of stuff was done with students of various age levels between elementary & college.

Comment author: ChristianKl 29 December 2013 10:39:15PM 2 points [-]

It might be an issue of how broad you define spaced repetition. I think a lot of those cites use a fairly broad definition but no Anki/Memosyth/Supermeno is involved.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 30 December 2013 08:36:31AM *  0 points [-]

Spaced repetition alone has probably been floated around, but giving students tablets and making them use Anki themselves to study at home might be new.

Spaced repetition in instruction might work great as long as the single teacher running the experiment is doing it, and is then going to go away after the experiment stops. Some of the students exposed to Anki might keep using it by themselves after being taught to.