This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust.

Show Notes:

Today's episode is specifically for students. It is the follow-up to our previous episode (Episode 14) for students. Our goal for this pair of episodes was to take what we know about the science of learning and focus on how it can be used by you - students - to improve how much you're learning and your performance on tests, exams, and other types of assessments. We hope that this episode will be applicable to a range of students, regardless of age and specific subject(s) being studied.

The two most important study strategies are spaced practice and retrieval practice. They have the most evidence for their effectiveness, and are the most broadly applicable across a huge variety of different skills and subjects. We focused Episode 14 on these two strategies, and we begin the current episode by reviewing them.

In this follow-up episode, we discuss 4 additional techniques that also have merit. Interleaving, elaboration, dual coding, and concrete examples. You can find videos about all six of these study strategies here.

Transcript:

Special thanks to the Digital Access Team at the University of Cincinnati for providing the transcripts for this episode.

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