Table 1
Schematic depicting the time line between teaching and testing for the distributed and massed instruction groups
|
Week 1 |
Week 2 |
Week 3 |
Week 4 |
Week 5 |
Week 6 |
Week 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Distributed Module 1 |
Distributed Module 2 |
Distributed Module 3 |
– |
– |
Retention Test 1 (N = 45) |
Retention Test 2 (N = 6) |
|
– |
Massed 1 |
Massed 2 |
– |
– |
27 from Massed |
3 from Massed |
Fig. 1
Average percent correct across all three modules (Error bars are standard error)
Fig. 2
Average percent correct on the retention test for all four conditions (Error bars are standard error)
Fig. 3
Average percent correct across all immediate tests and the delayed test. There were only five questions on all immediate tests and 20 questions on the delayed test. There is a notable increase in performance from Module 1 to 2 and a notable drop in performance after delay. Importantly, the students that retained the most were in the Distributed_Blocked group
