{"pk":24510,"title":"Prior Knowledge Adaptation Through Item-Removal in Adaptive Learning Increases Short- and Long-Term Learning Benefits","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In personalized-schedule learning, previous research has shown the benefit of initial attempted retrieval of study-items on short-term retention and later test performance. As a way of prior-knowledge identification, initial attempted retrieval may help to optimize learning and long-term performance further, through the removal (or ‘drop') of items from the learning set that are answered correctly on the first attempt. This study sought to support this hypothesis through a real-world, within-subjects experiment, comparing vocabulary test performance of Dutch middle school students after the use of a drop- and non-drop adaptive learning algorithm. The results show that short- and long-term item retention was higher for material studied using the drop-algorithm, while dropping items did not lead to worse retention compared to items that were kept upon initial correct responses. This suggests that initially-known items are correctly identified as ‘mastered', and that their removal from the learning material allows students to focus their efforts on unknown items, leading to increased learning gains.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Education; Psychology; Skill acquisition and learning; Classroom studies; Knowledge representation"}],"section":"Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jh7z8tp","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Malte","middle_name":"","last_name":"Krambeer","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Groningen","department":""},{"first_name":"Maarten","middle_name":"","last_name":"van der Velde","name_suffix":"","institution":"MemoryLab","department":""},{"first_name":"Hedderik","middle_name":"","last_name":"van Rijn","name_suffix":"","institution":"SlimStampen BV","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T12:00:00-06:00","render_galley":{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24510/galley/21469/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24510/galley/14107/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24510/galley/21469/download/"}]}