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Beyond hypercorrection: Remembering corrective feedback for low-confidence errors

Beyond hypercorrection: Remembering corrective feedback for low-confidence errors
Beyond hypercorrection: Remembering corrective feedback for low-confidence errors
Correcting errors based on corrective feedback is essential to successful learning. Previous studies have found that corrections to high-confidence errors are better remembered than low-confidence errors (the hypercorrection effect). The aim of this study was to investigate whether corrections to low-confidence errors can also be successfully retained in some cases. Participants completed an initial multiple-choice test consisting of control, trick and easy general-knowledge questions, rated their confidence after answering each question, and then received immediate corrective feedback. After a short delay, they were given a cued-recall test consisting of the same questions. In two experiments, we found high-confidence errors to control questions were better corrected on the second test compared to low-confidence errors – the typical hypercorrection effect. However, low-confidence errors to trick questions were just as likely to be corrected as high-confidence errors. Most surprisingly, we found that memory for the feedback and original responses, not confidence or surprise, were significant predictors of error correction. We conclude that for some types of material, there is an effortful process of elaboration and problem solving prior to making low-confidence errors that facilitates memory of corrective feedback.
hypecorrection, Memory, feedback
0965-8211
201-218
Griffiths, Lauren
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Higham, Philip
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Griffiths, Lauren
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Higham, Philip
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Griffiths, Lauren and Higham, Philip (2018) Beyond hypercorrection: Remembering corrective feedback for low-confidence errors. Memory, 26 (2), 201-218. (doi:10.1080/09658211.2017.1344249).

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Correcting errors based on corrective feedback is essential to successful learning. Previous studies have found that corrections to high-confidence errors are better remembered than low-confidence errors (the hypercorrection effect). The aim of this study was to investigate whether corrections to low-confidence errors can also be successfully retained in some cases. Participants completed an initial multiple-choice test consisting of control, trick and easy general-knowledge questions, rated their confidence after answering each question, and then received immediate corrective feedback. After a short delay, they were given a cued-recall test consisting of the same questions. In two experiments, we found high-confidence errors to control questions were better corrected on the second test compared to low-confidence errors – the typical hypercorrection effect. However, low-confidence errors to trick questions were just as likely to be corrected as high-confidence errors. Most surprisingly, we found that memory for the feedback and original responses, not confidence or surprise, were significant predictors of error correction. We conclude that for some types of material, there is an effortful process of elaboration and problem solving prior to making low-confidence errors that facilitates memory of corrective feedback.

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Accepted/In Press date: 7 June 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 1 July 2017
Published date: 7 February 2018
Keywords: hypecorrection, Memory, feedback

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Local EPrints ID: 412186
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/412186
ISSN: 0965-8211
PURE UUID: 89c7b9e7-7fc7-41a2-a7c9-5f003edab953
ORCID for Philip Higham: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6087-7224

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Date deposited: 13 Jul 2017 16:31
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 05:32

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Author: Lauren Griffiths
Author: Philip Higham ORCID iD

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