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http://today.duke.edu/2012/02/hypercorrection[font face=Times, Times New Roman, Serif][font size=5]New Insights Into How to Correct False Knowledge[/font]
[font size=4]Educators might be able to help students by correcting inaccurate information then having them practice retrieving it from memory[/font]
February 7, 2012
[font size=3]Durham, NC - The abundance of false information available on the Internet, in movies and on TV has created a big challenge for educators.
Students sometimes arrive in classrooms filled with inaccurate knowledge they are confident is correct, indicating it is deeply entrenched in their memory.
According to Duke University researchers, educators might be able to help students overcome their misconceptions by correcting inaccurate information then having the students practice retrieving it from memory.
"Errors that are deeply entrenched in memory are notoriously difficult to correct," said Andrew Butler, a post-doctoral researcher in Duke's Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, who led a recent study of how students correct false knowledge. "Providing students with feedback is the first step because it enables them to identify the error and learn the correct information."
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-011-0173-y[font size=4]Educators might be able to help students by correcting inaccurate information then having them practice retrieving it from memory[/font]
February 7, 2012
[font size=3]Durham, NC - The abundance of false information available on the Internet, in movies and on TV has created a big challenge for educators.
Students sometimes arrive in classrooms filled with inaccurate knowledge they are confident is correct, indicating it is deeply entrenched in their memory.
According to Duke University researchers, educators might be able to help students overcome their misconceptions by correcting inaccurate information then having the students practice retrieving it from memory.
"Errors that are deeply entrenched in memory are notoriously difficult to correct," said Andrew Butler, a post-doctoral researcher in Duke's Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, who led a recent study of how students correct false knowledge. "Providing students with feedback is the first step because it enables them to identify the error and learn the correct information."
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[font face=Times, Times New Roman, Serif][font size=5]The hypercorrection effect persists over a week, but high-confidence errors return [/font]
Andrew C. Butler, Lisa K. Fazio and Elizabeth J. Marsh
[font size=4]Abstract[/font]
[font size=3]Peoples knowledge about the world often contains misconceptions that are well-learned and firmly believed. Although such misconceptions seem hard to correct, recent research has demonstrated that errors made with higher confidence are more likely to be corrected with feedback, a finding called the hypercorrection effect. We investigated whether this effect persists over a 1-week delay. Subjects answered general-knowledge questions about science, rated their confidence in each response, and received correct answer feedback. Half of the subjects reanswered the same questions immediately, while the other half reanswered them after a 1-week delay. The hypercorrection effect occurred on both the immediate and delayed final tests, but error correction decreased on the delayed test. When subjects failed to correct an error on the delayed test, they sometimes reproduced the same error from the initial test. Interestingly, high-confidence errors were more likely than low-confidence errors to be reproduced on the delayed test. These findings help to contextualize the hypercorrection effect within the broader memory literature by showing that high-confidence errors are more likely to be corrected, but they are also more likely to be reproduced if the correct answer is forgotten.[/font][/font]
Andrew C. Butler, Lisa K. Fazio and Elizabeth J. Marsh
[font size=4]Abstract[/font]
[font size=3]Peoples knowledge about the world often contains misconceptions that are well-learned and firmly believed. Although such misconceptions seem hard to correct, recent research has demonstrated that errors made with higher confidence are more likely to be corrected with feedback, a finding called the hypercorrection effect. We investigated whether this effect persists over a 1-week delay. Subjects answered general-knowledge questions about science, rated their confidence in each response, and received correct answer feedback. Half of the subjects reanswered the same questions immediately, while the other half reanswered them after a 1-week delay. The hypercorrection effect occurred on both the immediate and delayed final tests, but error correction decreased on the delayed test. When subjects failed to correct an error on the delayed test, they sometimes reproduced the same error from the initial test. Interestingly, high-confidence errors were more likely than low-confidence errors to be reproduced on the delayed test. These findings help to contextualize the hypercorrection effect within the broader memory literature by showing that high-confidence errors are more likely to be corrected, but they are also more likely to be reproduced if the correct answer is forgotten.[/font][/font]
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(Slightly off-topic) New Insights Into How to Correct False Knowledge (Original Post)
OKIsItJustMe
Feb 2012
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libodem
(19,288 posts)1. Free Republic
Needs this information now!
Dead_Parrot
(14,478 posts)2. Dunno, there's some pretty long words there
I wonder if there's a "Misconceptions with Dick and Jane" version?
Nihil
(13,508 posts)3. Isn't that still a crime in some states?
> "Misconceptions with Dick and Jane"
txlibdem
(6,183 posts)4. No, I think it's
> "Misconceptions with Rick and Dale" that is the crime in those states.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)5. Not exactly on topic but definitely appropriate to this group...