Daniel Poux’s ppt- was the second half of the criti thinking presenttion by Deanne Puloka

Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques:

Promising Directions From Cognitive & Educational Psychology

Students are responsible for regulating an increasing amount of their learning as they progress from elementary through middle school and high school to college.

Lifelong learners also need to continue regulating their own learning, whether it

takes place in the context of education, the workplace or recreational activities.

Researchers limited choices to techniques that could be implemented by students without assistance (e.g., without requiring advanced technologies or extensive materials that would have to be prepared by a teacher).

Some training may be required for students to learn how to use a technique with fidelity, but students should be able to use the techniques without supervision.

Researchers chose techniques for which a sufficient amount of empirical evidence

was available to support at least a preliminary assessment of potential efficacy.

Nine Common Study Techniques

Practice testing – using flashcards to review materialDistributed practice – spreading out your study sessionsMnemonics – memory joggers (rhymes, acronyms) Self-explanation – forcing yourself to explain instead of reading Elaborative interrogation – asking yourself “why” as you readMental imagery – using pictures to help you remember textRe-readingSummarizingHighlighting and underlining

THE BEST: Practice testing – using flashcards to review material Distributed practice – spreading out your study sessions

THE REST: Mnemonics – memory joggers (rhymes, acronyms) Self-explanation – forcing yourself to explain instead of reading Elaborative interrogation – asking yourself “why” as you read Mental imagery – using pictures to help you remember text

THE WORST: Re-reading Summarizing Highlighting and underlining

Highlighting Interferes with

Making Connections

Re-reading

Summarizing – Pro Tips Restate ideas of the source in different

words and phrases

Do not add your own ideas, opinions or judgment of the arguments

Make it shorter than the source

Ask yourself “So What?”

Mental Imagery

“Sally Made Harry Eat Onions”

English: “I” before “E” except after “C”

(believe, receipt) Spanish: this – esto

these – estosthat – eso

those – esos“this and these, keep the t’s, that and those, out it goes”

Mnemonics – Rhymes

“Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest”

Cramming doesn’t work in the long run

Vilfredo ParetoItalian engineer,

sociologist, economist,

political scientist & philosopher1848 – 1923

Why Distributed Practice Works Better

Examples of Distributed

Practice

Practice Testing Improves Recall

Hansel & Gretel