Michael T. McCarthy
Arizona State University
4 Papers
24 Citations
Michael T. McCarthy is an academic researcher from Arizona State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Recall & Visual perception. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications.
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Papers
Form of Feedback Effects on Verb Learning and Near-Transfer Tasks by Sixth Graders.
TL;DR: The authors examined the effects of two forms of feedback on learning, using a recent model of instructional feedback (Kulhavy & Stock, 1989), examine how feedback would effect performance on near-transfer tests at cycle 3 of the model and implement a feedback study using the procedural task of verb recognition in the classroom with sixth-grade students.
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Conjoint Influence of Maps and Auded Prose on Children’s Retrieval of Instruction
TL;DR: The authors studied a map of a fictitious island while twice listening to a related narrative containing target feature and non-feature items, and found that students remembered more text features and were more confident of their responses when cued by icons plus labels and by icons only.
Drawing maps from text : a test of conjoint retention
TL;DR: This article found that drawing personal maps resulted in better text recall and yielded the highest conditional probabilities of recall for a feature-related item, given that the subjects also remembered the map feature.
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The Effects of Feedback Timing on Learning Facts: The Role of Response Confidence
TL;DR: This article examined the influence of immediate and delayed feedback on learning general information multiple-choice items and found that delayed feedback improved retention and increased confidence on the post-test items, while immediate feedback also increased feedback study-time.