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839assessments
A 2006 meta-analysis of distributed practice covered 839 assessments from 317 experiments in 184 articles.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“This review found 839 assessments of distributed practice in 317 experiments located in 184 articles.”
Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis, Nicholas J. Cepeda et al., Psychological Bulletin, 2006, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- Distributed (spaced) practice means study split over several sessions rather than massed into one.
- What it does not show
- The sample is large but the tasks are memory tasks, so this is evidence by analogy for a practice schedule.