The Influence Of Test And Feedback Time On Judgment Of Learning And Recall Performance In Higher Grade Pupil

As an important form of metamemory prospective monitoring, judgment of learning is the prediction of memory performance about learning materials that individuals had learned in subsequent recall tests. Excellent monitoring judgment can provide a basis for the metamemory control system, and help learners determine how to allot study time and adjust processing strategies preferably, thus achieving highly effective learning. Therefore, more and more researchers’attention is paying to how to improve the accuracy of judgment of learning. Studies have found that many factors affect JOL and the accuracy of JOL, such as the intrinsic properties of material, learning conditions, personality characteristics, and so on. And the studies about testing effect have found that test can make an impact on the accuracy of JOL and recall performance. Based on this, the present study attempts to further explore the influence of test and feedback time on JOL, the accuracy of JOL and memory.This study chooses higher grade pupils as subjects and irrelevant word pairs as experimental materials, including two experiments. Experiment 1 took a single factor between-subject design to explore the effect of test and feedback on JOL and recall performance in higher grade pupils. The independent variable is study way, divided to re-study, Test-With-No-Feedback, Test-With-Feedback three levels. Experiment 2 took a two-factor between-subject design by 2(feedback time:immediate feedback vs. delayed feedback)×2(judging interval:3minutes later vs.3days later), which wanted to explore how different feedback time and judging interval impact higher grade pupils’JOL and recall performance.The research conclusions are showed as follows:(1)Test-With-No-Feedback can improve relative accuracy of JOL and have contributed to memory retention.(2)Even though immediate feedback after test improves JOLs and recall performance, it decreases the metamemory monitoring benefit of test greatly by reducing relative accuracy of JOL, which is also adverse to long-term memory retention.(3)Feedback time affect JOL and its absolute accuracy.The JOLs of immediate feedback is higher than delayed feedback, but its absolute accuracy of JOL is lower than delayed feedback.(4)Compared with immediate feedback, delayed feedback is better for long-term memory retention, which is an effective way of learning.