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Best (and Worst) Ways to Study for a Test
Yahoo: Want to ace a school exam or bone up for a work presentation? Forget the highlighter, and make yourself some flashcards instead. That’s the upshot of a recent report in Psychological Science in the
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Popular study strategies called ineffective — report
The Washington Post: Researchers who evaluated 10 learning techniques believed to improve student achievement found that five of them — including highlighting or underlining, are not very effective. The report, called “Improving Students’ Learning With
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Studying for a big exam? Use flash cards, not highlighters
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel: Students studying for big exams may want to put down their neon highlighters and make some flash cards instead. Some of the most popular study strategies — such as highlighting and rereading — don’t show
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What’s the best way to learn? Psychologists tackle studying techniques
CBS News: What’s the best way to study for a test? A new study says taking practice tests and engaging in distributed practice — which means sticking to a schedule of spreading out your studying
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Highlighting Is a Waste of Time: The Best and Worst Learning Techniques
TIME: In a world as fast-changing and full of information as our own, every one of us — from schoolchildren to college students to working adults — needs to know how to learn well. Yet
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Which Study Strategies Make the Grade?
A scientific review suggests that several popular study strategies are ineffective, while effective strategies are underused.
