READ ME File For the Southampton Doctoral thesis entitled “Controlled and Automatic Influences of Multiple Choice Testing" Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D2251 ReadMe Author: Aeshah Alamri, University of Southampton This dataset supports the publication: Alamri, A., & Higham, P. A. (2022). The dark side of corrective feedback: controlled and automatic influences of retrieval practice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001138 The dataset contain the data for eight experiments included in the thesis entitled “Controlled and Automatic Influences of Multiple Choice Testing" which were divided into three papers: Paper 1 (Experiments 1, 2, and 3) Paper 2 (Experiments 1 and 2) Paper 3 (Experiments 1, 2, and 3) The dataset includes the raw data of the first and final tests, the final test answer type, and the endorsement rate of corrective feedback. This is applied to each experiment. Date of data collection: January 2019 - December 2021 Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K. Date that the file was created: June 2022.