AUTHOR=Yong Paul Zhihao , Lim Stephen Wee Hun 

TITLE=Observing the Testing Effect using Coursera Video-Recorded Lectures: A Preliminary Study

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=6

YEAR=2016

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02064

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02064

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>We investigated the testing effect in <italic>Coursera</italic> video-based learning. One hundred and twenty-three participants either (a) studied an instructional video-recorded lecture four times, (b) studied the lecture three times and took one recall test, or (c) studied the lecture once and took three tests. They then took a final recall test, either immediately or a week later, through which their learning was assessed. Whereas repeated studying produced better recall performance than did repeated testing when the final test was administered immediately, testing produced better performance when the final test was delayed until a week after. The testing effect was observed using <italic>Coursera</italic> lectures. Future directions are documented.</p>