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Let's say you'll get ₹500 if you score full marks on a quiz about the five longest rivers that flow through India.
You will be given the material you need. It will be available in three forms:
A passage containing five paragraphs, each paragraph describing one river
An outline of the above, with headings and bullet points
A matrix
….If I were you, I would choose the matrix, even though it appears to have the least number of words. Why?
The purpose of this series of blog posts is to highlight three potentially useful connections between these research areas: selective attention (discussed in an earlier blog post), encoding/deep processing (the topic of this post), and retrieval practice (new post coming soon!).
Students have immediate access to their work on a smartphone. According to Pew research [1], 85% of Americans own a smartphone, with that large number increasing to 96% for adults ages 18-29. College students universally own smartphones. Kara Sage in her research on college student use and …
It was as if any mental and physical exhaustion I felt in that moment disappeared; I was alert and focused. After all, one of the most effective ways to immediately capture someone’s attention is to use that person’s name. In this case, it suggested that my classmate remembered something I said earlier.
What do you think of when you hear the word “reflection”? Introspection? Done in the moment or retroactively? Something done by yourself or with others? Reflection, as a pedagogical strategy, is utilized widely in education. It is a critical component of many educational theories, especially Transformational Learning.
