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shared by Steve Ransom on 03 Sep 13 - No Cached

“Spaced repetition” is one example of the kind of evidence-based techniques that researchers have found have a positive impact on learning.
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Eighth-grade history students who relied on a spaced approach to learning had nearly double the retention rate
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“retrieval practice,”
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Every time we pull up a memory, we make it stronger and more lasting, so that testing doesn’t just measure, it changes learning. Simply reading over material to be learned, or even taking notes and making outlines, as many homework assignments require, doesn’t have this effect.
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When we work hard to understand information, we recall it better; the extra effort signals the brain that this knowledge is worth keeping. This phenomenon, known as cognitive disfluency
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