This is an excellent study. It's always nice to know that I'm doing the right thing for a change :)
The students' comments regarding Mnemosyne, on page 55, are very complimentary :) The study was based on a 2-group experiment, where one group used the normal MS functionality, and the other group used MS without the scheduling algorithm. I would like to see a 2-group experiment, where one group uses the normal MS functionality, and the other group only has access to the "0" and "5" buttons :) Reason: I think I hinted in another post that I don't think my cards are being pushed into the future quickly enough: http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users/browse_thread/thread/c0853ac0c60358cc# I suggested that the scheduled intervals could be increased based on a few "straddle" cards, where the interval is deliberately chosen to be too long. Immediately after that post, I started a completely new database to try a similar idea. I use only the "0" and "5" buttons. In the first week, the answers oscillated between right and wrong on a daily basis. But after stabilizing I now have a high percentage of correct answers. I suspect that my daily workload is now a lot less than it would have been if if had spent time agonizing over whether to grade an answer as 2, 3, 4, or 5. For only one user, this suspicion is impossible to prove :( Another advantage of using only the "5" button is that it forces me to formulate efficient questions. Here's the reason. There are some questions for which I still oscillate between the right and wrong answers. For these questions, I have been forced to use the SuperMemo list of 20 rules in order to re-phrase my question more efficiently. For some questions, I need several attempts to arrive at the correct form of wording. For some other questions, I simply add another question that is similar to the wrong question, but highlights a slightly different aspect, and hence forms a slightly different "association". If I had been allowed to use the 2, 3, or 4 buttons for any of these questions, I would probably have correctly remembered the answers to some badly-written questions. I bet nobody thought of that :) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
