The testing effect and the retention interval: questions and answers.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Experimental Psychology

• Publication date

  2009-05-13

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1027/1618-3169.56.4.252PMID 19439397
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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