Comparing the effect of mass and distributed study techniques on remembering level and its relation with the exam date

AbstractA common way of study by students is reading the studying materials over and over or “Rereading”. Rereading is a process of repeating subjects and according to time spacing between reading is divided to two main parts: first, “mass study” when there is no time spacing between subsequent reading; second, “distributed study” when the time spacing is present between two studies. In this research, the goal is to complete and generalize the previous findings in this area. They key point is to compare the efficiency of three types of studding (i.e. single study, mass rereading studding and distributed studding) based on examination results? For this, we employed six groups of twelve peoples in this study. Participants are selected randomly based on factorial combination of two independent variables. Three types of studding are considered here: single study, mass rereading study and distributed rereading study. In addition, the examinations were held on two levels: one immediately after studding and other associated with a two-day delay after studding. After the study of a given text, the remembering test was taken from students. Results show that in the immediately held test, the group who used mass studding technique had better score than the other. However, in the delayed test, the group that used distributed studding technique had better score with regard to the first group