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The 5th meeting of the DFG Research Unit 'Lasting Learning: Cognitive Mechanisms and Instructional Implementation' (FOR 5254) was held at the Department of Psychology IV at the University of Würzburg.

The annual Autumn Meeting of the DFG Research Group will take place from 7 to 8 October 2024. The meeting will include reports from the PhD students, discussions on the progress of individual research projects, and planning of research activities for the coming year. We are delighted to be able to meet here in Würzburg on this occasion.

Congratulations to Dwayne Lieck: At the SIG 6&7 of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) he won the Junior Researcher Award for 'no-or-not-so-perfect data presentation'. Very well done!

Johanna Bohm, a PhD student in the research group "Lasting Learning in Physics by Constructive Retrieval", has recently left the project. The group is led by Prof. Dr. Alexander Renkl and Prof. Dr. Claudia von Aufschnaiter. We thank Johanna for all her contributions and wish her all the best for her future work.

Luise Ende contributed as a doctoral student in the research group "The testing effect and the complexity of the learning material: The adequacy of the knowledge base as a moderator?". She has now left the project.

PhD student Anne Ludwig joins the project "Promoting lasting learning by combining spacing with worked examples", led by Prof. Dr. Mirjam Ebersbach (University of Kassel, Department of Developmental Psychology).

We are pleased to welcome Dwayne Lieck as a new PhD student. He joins the project "Lasting Learning in Physics by Constructive Retrieval" led by Prof. Dr. Alexander Renkl.

Congratulations: The paper "Build-up and release from proactive interference: The forward testing effect in children’s spatial memory" by Alp Aslan and Veit Kubik is published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology in April 2024.

Which learning and teaching method is most effective? Or is it better to combine several learning methods to enhance lasting learning? These and other questions are answered in the podcast series „Bildungsmärchen - Pädagogische Mythen entzaubert“. In the latest episodes, researchers from the DFG research group discuss desirable difficulties in learning.

The meeting of the DFG-Research Group took place on December 11th, 2023.

Dr. Tino Endres has been invited to be the junior keynote speaker at the Joint Special Interest Group Conference of EARLI SIG 6 (Instructional Design) and SIG 7 (Technology-Enhanced Learning and Instruction), which is held in Tübingen (August 21-23, 2024).

Congratulations on the publication of the paper "Motivation brought to the test: Successful retrieval practice is modulated by mastery goal orientation and external rewards" by Tino Endres and Alexander Eitel in Applied Cognitive Psychology in December 2023.

The poster titled "Does constructive retrieval enhance lasting learning of complex material in physics? ", presented by the authors Johanna Bohm, Tino Endres, Claudia von Aufschnaiter, Andreas Vorholzer, Alexander Eitel, Alexander Renkl was awarded with a poster prize at JURE2023, The 27th Annual JURE Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, 20-21 August 2023 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Congratulations: The paper "Happy together? On the relationship between Research on retrieval practice and generative learning using the case of follow‑up learning tasks" by Julian Roelle, Tino Endres, Roman Abel, Niklas Obergassel, Matthias Nückles and Alexander Renkl was published in the Educational Psychology Review in August 2023.

In recent years, Open Sciencea has become a central part of good scientific practice. The aim of Open Science is to make scientific processes more transparent and sustainable, and to prevent questionable scientific practices (such as p-hacking or HARKing). The Open Science workshop took place on the 7th and 14th of March 2023.