A New Reading Program Was Developed by Graduate Education Students

question 98

Essay

A new reading program was developed by graduate education students for increasing scores on standardized tests.Explain why the students and other researchers must replicate their findings before the program is implemented in schools.

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Definitions:

Retroactive Interference

The phenomenon where newly learned information interferes with the recall of information learned previously.

Misinformation Effect

The phenomenon in which a person's recall of episodic memories becomes less accurate due to post-event information.

Automatic Processing

The unconscious encoding of incidental or well-learned information without effort.

Effortful Processing

The active and conscious effort to encode or store information in memory.