as you know, when a course ends, students start to forget the material

by Casimir Smith 4 min read

As you know, when a course ends, students start to forget the material they have learned. One model (called the Ebbinghaus
Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghaus (24 January 1850 – 26 February 1909) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was also the first person to describe the learning curve.
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model) assumes that the rate at which a student forgets material is proportional to the difference between the material currently remembered and some positive constant, a.