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Spacing and Self-testing impact on URM students study introduction

There is a large STEM achievement gap-a higher percentage of white and asian students that aim to complete a STEM degree (43 and 52% respectively) are successful than Latino, African-American, or Native-American students (21.8, 24.9, and 24.9% respectively)
Spacing is important because it provides the learner with multiple opportunities to be exposed to and learn the material
Spacing works because students tend to forget the information between study sessions and therefore have the opportunity to re-learn it each time
Self-testing is helpful because it encourages retrieval practice
Practice tests and spacing together are the most beneficial
Studies have found that even though students might know that spaced practice is better for their learning, this does not necessarily increase the probability that they will utilize these techniques
Instead of altering the way the course was structured, they wanted to see if having the professor repeatedly encourage self-testing and spacing would motivate the students to do so

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Updated 2021-02-08

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