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Month: December 2017

RETRIEVAL PRACTICE REALLY WORKS

December 19, 2017 paulgmoss

RETRIEVAL PRACTICE IS WORKING There existed a minor irony with the proliferation and exhortation of retrieval practice by research advocates as an effective teaching strategy,

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