At 10:20 AM -0700 10/4/00, Annette Taylor wrote:
>On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Paul Brandon wrote:
>>
>> Personally, I've always thought that final exams are a good test of short
>> term memory ;-)
>
>Now I have always thought the opposite, especially for a cumulative final
>exam--the material was once studied well enough to be tested over and
>then at some later time restudied well enough to be tested over and
>_should_ be available for a longer term.
>
>If the final is just one of several midterms where once it is studied
>it is never gone back to, then I agree, it is a good test of relatively
>short LTM--all of this is really quite mucky even to memory researchers,
>i believe.
Empirically, how much evidence do you see of transfer from earlier related
courses?
Particularly, do you see much transfer from Intro to more advanced courses?
The question is testable!
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