Effectiveness of Self-Testing

Running Head: EFFECTIVENESS OF SELF-TESTING
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Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Effectiveness of self-testing.............................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Self-testing is basically a test that can be completed without the help of any trained
professionals. Researchers have devoted a lot of time of theirs in studying how to study (Burton,
2010). The researchers have found out several techniques that may help the students in
remembering their studies. The two of the techniques that helped the students most in
remembering their studies is the practice testing and the distributed practice (Zawadzka &
Hanczakowski, 2018). The researchers have shown that self-test can help in improving the long-
term memory and the capability of the students to recover significant data when people need it. It
has already been proved that self-testing can help the students a lot and students practicing self-
testing can outperform the other students who are not practicing self-testing. Though self-testing
is so much effective in enlightening the long-term ability of recalling the evidences but still
people do not use this technique often. This is because of the fact that students feel that the
standard study methods are quite comfortable than the tests. As the brain is firm wired to follow
the path of the least struggle so the learners are more tending to opt for the relaxed options.
Effectiveness of self-testing
It is the peculiarity of our mind that memory of the people is better impressed by the
active than by the passive repetition. The retrieval practices often produce greater learning and
help in retaining the long-term studying. It has been found out by the researchers that the
retrieval of the information from the memory may help in producing a better retention that
studying the similar data for same quantity of time has been termed as the result of testing. In the
recent years several researches have shown strong mnemonic benefits of the retrieval benefits
(Roediger III & Butler, 2011). The retrieval practice can prove to be an effective enhancer of
memory but evidently the situations of the matter of retrieval. It has also been seen that the