"Anything that creates active learning - generating understanding on your own - is very effective in retention. It basically means the learner needs to become more involved and more engaged, and less passive."
"Flashcards are another good way of doing this. And one key to using them is actually re-testing yourself on the ones you got right.
"A lot of students will answer the question on a flashcard, and take it out of the deck if they get it right. But it turns out this isn't a good idea - repeating the act of memory retrieval is important. Studies show that keeping the correct item in the deck and encountering it again is useful. You might want to practice the incorrect items a little more, but repeated exposure to the ones you get right is important too.
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The key to using them is re-testing yourself on the ones you got right.
Encountering the correct item again is useful. You might want to practice the incorrect items a little more, but repeated exposure to the ones you get right is important too.
Draw out information in a visual form
A great strategy is making diagrams, or visual models or flowcharts.
Anything that creates active learning generating understanding on your won - is very effective in retention. It basically means the learner needs to become more involved and more engaged and less passive.
Active vs Passive Readers
Passive readers forget things almost as quickly as they read them. Active readers, on the other hand, retain the bulk of what they read.
The more that active readers read, the better they get. They develop a latticework of mental models to hang ideas on, further increasing ...
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