One of today's Chronicle of Higher Ed articles says recent research shows the students do well to read, then practice recall of what they just read as a retention strategy, yet the word wasn't getting out to students in classes about doing so. The point made was that the "recall" step was not communicated. And re-reading is not recall.
Chronicle Article
This strategy is the old SQ4R study method--"Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Write, Review."
And it spite of what the article concludes, many institutions had materials for this method on the web:
SQ4R Materials
(I stopped counting at 30 institutions though there were many more.) In addition to the research discussion, the article is calling for promotion of effective study skills in courses.
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