Here's some lines from the article going over the types of tests... > A week later all four groups were given a short-answer test that assessed their ability t

Here's some lines from the article going over the types of tests... > A week later all four groups were given a short-answer test that assessed their ability to recall facts and draw logical conclusions based on the facts. > But when they were evaluated a week later, the students in the testing group did much better than the concept mappers. They even did better when they were evaluated not with a short-answer test but with a test requiring them to draw a concept map from memory. > The final group took a “retrieval practice” test. Without the passage in front of them, they wrote what they remembered in a free-form essay for 10 minutes. Then they reread the passage and took another retrieval practice test. Another issue with the overall study is a lack of blindness of the researchers, as well as people making up questions about the material in a disconnected way from the study to test the students on those.