(MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass., Nov. 24, 2016)--Learning by taking practice tests, a strategy known as retrieval practice, can protect memory against the negative effects of stress, report scientists from ...

In schools across the U.S., multiple-choice questions such as this one provoke anxiety, even dread. Their appearance means it is testing time, and tests are big, important, excruciatingly unpleasant ...

Many psychologists have believed that testing is good for memory, but only for the exact thing you are trying to remember: so-called "target memory." In a new study, researchers set out to test ...

The first weeks of the new year used to be a time when California teachers pushed students to cram to learn the right answers for the state's multiple-choice English and math exams. Now students are ...

Learning by taking practice tests, a strategy known as retrieval practice, can protect memory against the negative effects of stress, report scientists. Learning by taking practice tests, a strategy ...