Formative evaluation reveals limited benefits of binary right-wrong feedback in learners, suggesting conceptual elaboration improves retention and transfer.
Right/wrong feedback appears to have limited potential to augment test-enhanced learning. Our work suggests that item-level feedback and feedback that identifies and elaborates on key conceptual knowledge are two important areas for future research on learning, retention and transfer.
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