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Clear filtersProbably the first scientist to research and describe the processes related to forgetting in a truly scientific manner was the German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus. While he didn’t invent the term s…
The popular history of spaced repetition is full of myths and falsehoods. This text is to tell you the true story. The problem with spaced repetition is that it became too popular for its own effectiv…
Important! For the most up-to-date version of this text, see: “Development of SuperMemo.”
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This text was taken from P.A.Wozniak, Optimization of learning, Master’s Thesis, University of Technology in Poznan, 1990
The effectiveness of the SuperMemo method depends to a high degree on the attitude of the student. The nuances of the optimization procedure seem to play lesser role than student’s feelings about:
From P.A.Wozniak, Optimization of Learning, updated and corrected May 20, 1997
This text was taken from P.A.Wozniak, Optimization of learning, Master’s Thesis, University of Technology in Poznan, 1990 and adapted for publishing as an independent article on the web. (P.A.Wozniak,…
Optimization of Learning, Master’s Thesis defended at the University of Technology in Poznan, summarizes the early work over SuperMemo, development of the first versions of SuperMemo for DOS, and incl…