Flashcards / spaced-repetition software
15 papersEvidence base for flashcards / spaced-repetition software — every paper below is DOI-verified so you can trace any claim back to its source.
Cloze deletion (the Anki {{c1::…}} pattern) forces active recall of one or two specific facts inside an otherwise complete, true sentence. The evidence corpus supports this: spaced repetition through Anki tracked with higher Step-1 pass rates and lower failure rates (Cooper et al. 2023); self-generated Anki flashcard volume independently predicted licensing performance (Deng, Gluckstein & Larsen 2015); higher reliance on Anki active-retrieval cards tracked with better exam outcomes (Gilbert et al.
Papers
- Nawaf Salah Ayad Mohamed, Maria Abdulaziz Alrafi, Barbara Albani, Hassan Mohammed Abdu, Reem Albuhairan, Naziha Samir Altala, Sami Fatehi Abdalla — 20252025DOI: 10.1007/s40670-025-02487-5
- Juliana Magro, So-Young Oh, Nikola Košćica, Michael A. Poles — 20242024DOI: 10.1111/tct.13798
- Ogunjobi F., Alexander S. M., Cramer L. — **Year:** 20242024DOI: 10.7759/cureus.70994
- Michael M. Gilbert, Timothy C. Frommeyer, Garrett V. Brittain, Nickolas A. Stewart, Todd M. Turner, Adrienne Stolfi, Dean X. Parmelee — 20232023DOI: 10.1007/s40670-023-01826-8
- Jillian K. Wothe, Lindsey J. Wanberg, Rae D. Hohle, Aliya A. Sakher, Laura E. Bosacker, Faizel Khan, Andrew Olson, David J. Satin — 20232023DOI: 10.1177/23821205231173289
- Spencer Cooper, Nicole Twardowski, Michael P. Vogel, Daniel Perling, Rebecca Ryznar — 20232023DOI: 10.5195/ijms.2023.1549
- Cole P. Thompson, Marion A. Hughes — 20232023DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2023.08.028
- Dylan Jape, Jessie Zhou, Shane Bullock — 20222022DOI: 10.1186/s12909-022-03324-8
- David M. Harris, Michael F. Chiang — 20222022DOI: 10.7759/cureus.23530
- Cyrus Anthony Pumilia, Spencer Lessans, David Harris — 20202020DOI: 10.7759/cureus.10372
- Tabibian B., Upadhyay U., De A., Zarezade A., Schölkopf B., Gomez-Rodriguez M. — **Year:** 20192019DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1815156116
- Settles B., Meeder B. — **Year:** 20162016DOI: 10.18653/v1/P16-1174
- Tiago Taveira-Gomes, Rui Prado-Costa, Mílton Severo, Maria Amélia Ferreira — 20152015DOI: 10.1186/s12909-014-0275-0
- Francis Deng, Jeffrey A. Gluckstein, Douglas P. Larsen — 2015 (cited in the build brief as 2016; OpenAlex records 2015)2015DOI: 10.1007/s40037-015-0220-x
- Karpicke J. D., Roediger H. L. — **Year:** 20082008DOI: 10.1126/science.1152408
Audio companion script
This technique is called spaced flashcards. Reach for it when you want to drill recall with spaced flashcards (Anki) rather than passive review. The idea is simple. You build a steady habit and let it do the work over time. It is backed by fifteen peer reviewed studies, so the advice rests on real evidence. Try it on your own material this week and notice how much more sticks.