Testing Can Promote Long-Term Learning

Testing Can Be Useful for Students and Teachers, Promoting Long-Term Learning

Tests are good for: 

1. Assessing what you’ve learned;
2. Learning new information;
3. 1 and 2;
4. None of the above.

The correct answer?

According to research from psychological science, it’s (3) – while testing can be useful as an assessment tool, the actual process of taking a test can also help us to learn and retain new information over the long term and apply it across different contexts.

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