3. Don’t just reread books and notes
Cynthia Nebel read her textbooks, workbooks, and notes to learn in her teenage years. According to this psychologist from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, “again and over and over again.” “We know it’s one of the most prevalent terrible study skills that pupils have,” she continues.
Some college students read a material twice in a 2009 research. Some people only read a text once. After the reading, a test was given to both groups. Aimee Callender and Mark McDaniel discovered that these groups’ test scores did not significantly differ. She’s now attending Wheaton College in Illinois. He is employed at St. Louis, Missouri’s Washington University.
According to McDaniel, who also co-wrote the 2014 book Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, students frequently review content that is shallow. Rereading, in his opinion, is like to glancing at the solution to a puzzle rather than solving it yourself. It appears to make sense. You can’t truly tell if you comprehend anything unless you give it a try.
Henry Roediger is one of McDaniel’s Make it Stick coauthors. He is employed at Washington University as well. In a 2010 research, Roediger and two other coworkers compared the exam outcomes of students who had read the same material twice to those of two other groups. One group composed inquiries regarding the information. One group asked questions, while the other group responded. The top performers were those who provided answers. The weakest performers were those who just reread the text.
