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  • Educational Psychology
  • Learning Sciences

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  • Multiple-choice (MC) tests are common but criticized for promoting passive recognition over active retrieval.
  • The impact of metacognitive judgments on test performance requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how requiring answer justifications in MC tests affects student performance.
  • To explore the influence of answer justification on metacognitive accuracy.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted with university students studying a textbook chapter.
  • Participants completed either standard MC tests or MC tests with answer justifications.
  • Metacognitive judgments (predictive and postdictive) were collected.

Main Results:

  • The answer justification group significantly outperformed the MC-only group on immediate testing (Experiments 1 & 2).
  • The answer justification group showed numerically higher scores on delayed testing (Experiment 2).
  • Initial evidence suggests test type may influence metacognitive accuracy, warranting further research.

Conclusions:

  • Answer justification enhances learning by promoting elaborative retrieval, strengthening memory recall.
  • Incorporating answer justification into MC tests can improve both learning and metacognitive accuracy.
  • While beneficial for performance, answer justification adds a time cost compared to standard MC tests.