Research Finds Students Short on Study Savvy Most-effective
tactics are the least favored Students are least likely to
choose to test themselves while studying, although it has been
shown to be the most effective study strategy, according to
researchers here at the Association for Psychological Science
conference. "It's a remarkable feature of our educational system
that we give students so much stuff to learn and rarely tell
them how to go about learning that stuff," said Purdue
University psychologist Jeffrey D. Karpicke. "Learners tend to
think of 'how do I get all this stuff into my head?' and they
don't spend much time considering how they will get all of that
stuff back out of their heads when the time comes to retrieve
it. If you use effective strategies , you can spend less time
studying and learn more; you stop wasting time in studying and
get more out of it." While K-12 educators often argue that
students are tested too much in U.S. schools, research from the
Memory Lab at Washington University in S