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Direct linkJanet Metcalfe; Judy Xu; Matti Vuorre; Robert Siegler; Dylan Wiliam; Robert A. Bjork – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2025
Background: Although the generation of errors has been thought, traditionally, to impair learning, recent studies indicate that, under particular feedback conditions, the commission of errors may have a beneficial effect. Aims: This study investigates the teaching strategies that facilitate learning from errors. Materials and Methods: This 2-year…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Error Correction, Direct Instruction, Test Preparation
Download full textMetcalfe, Janet; Xu, Judy – Grantee Submission, 2017
Three experiments investigated the effects of making errors oneself, as compared to just hearing the correct answer without error generation, hearing another person make an error, or being "on-the-hook," that is, possibly but not necessarily being the person who would be "called-on" to give a response. In all three experiments,…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Responses, Recall (Psychology)
