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Peer reviewedBrown, Alan S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
Three experiments with 220 undergraduates generating or exposed to misspellings between two successive spelling tests indicated that experience with misspellings can be detrimental to subsequent performance. People may store multiple spelling versions of some words. Techniques using incorrect spellings are questionable methods of teaching or…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Recall (Psychology), Spelling, Spelling Instruction
