I think it would be nice to see a small improvement to the spaced repetition. Currently, if you answer a question wrong when it is 50% mastered it automatically reverts back to 0% mastered which isn’t really true. In fact it should just be 25% or 50% again since you weren’t able to answer the latest interval length.
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I think this issue is only a wording issue, if any issue at all.
I understand your point and that you take issue with the claim that a word that you’ve already correctly recalled, say, 10 times, and then forgot it’s meaning for whatever reason, were “0% mastered” because of course you’ve already invested quite some time into remembering it and it therefore isn’t truly “0% mastered”. But this is just a wording issue, if any issue at all.
It’s simply how any spaced repetition system works, regardless of whether it’s digital or analog (see, for example, the Leitner system):
If [you] make a mistake with a card in Box 2 or Box 3, it gets “demoted” to the first box, which forces [you] to study that card more often.
If [you] look at a card in Box 1 and get the correct answer, [you] “promote” it to Box 2.
That way, eventually:
The cards in Box 1 are the ones that the learner often makes mistakes with, Box 2 contains the cards that the learner rarely makes mistakes in
See also this:
If [you] fail, [you] send it back to the first group.
Therefore, every spaced repetition system I know disagrees with your following point:
You’re of course always free to manually edit a sentence and manually set it to 25% or 50% after it has been automatically reset to 0%. (Or request an optional feature that does this automatically for you or makes it easier to do so.)
The point of resetting a card you couldn’t answer to 0% is, as already quoted above, to
[force] [you] to study that card more often.
If you feel actually confident in recalling that word and don’t think you need to study that card more often, or if you think that it belongs into “Box 2 contains the cards that the learner rarely makes mistakes in” rather than in “Box 1 are the ones that the learner often makes mistakes with”, then you may of course deviate from the default (reset to 0%) and change it manually to 25% or 50% or 75%.
I agree with you that you’re correct in that “x% mastered” depends on how you define mastery and that the wording “0% mastered” isn’t completely accurate for your definition of mastery. I think of “0% mastered” simply as “box 1”.
You have two options now:
- Ask the Clozemaster developers to change their app to meet your definition.
- Adopt Clozemaster’s definition which resembles the boxes from the Leitner system I mentioned.
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I requested something similar a long time ago, but it never led to anything:
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