Optimizing Learning Recap
- Elaboration: How does this concept relate to other concepts?
- Distinctiveness: How is this concept different from other concepts?
- Personal: How can I relate this concept to my personal experience?
- Appropriate to Retrieval and Application: How am I expected to use or apply this concept?
- Automaticity: A process so highly practiced that it occurs without any conscious effort.
- Overlearning: Continuing to study beyond just knowing information to where it can be recalled quickly and easily.
Strategies for Achieving Deep Process
- Question Generation
- Concept Map
- Practice Retrieving Information in Way Teacher Expects (a. Practice recalling without referring to notes. b. Practice using the information.)
Taking Notes in Class
- Provides a key summary
- Creates a set of memory cues
- Engages you in the class
How to Highlight for Deep Processing While Reading a Textbook
- Read all the texts (Good highlighting requires multiple readings and meaningful decisions.)
- Be selective about what you highlight based on its importance and how it relates the other information (Don’t highlight complete passages. Leave out unnecessary text.)
- Go back later to review what you highlighted
Rules for Effective Group Study
- Set a goal and agenda
- Set criteria for participation
- Keep ultimate goal of learning in mind
- Everyone can ask/answer questions
- Any member can express the group understanding
* Related Post: Meaning Ring – How to Study Effectively? – 如何有效地學習