Effective Learning and Study Strategies. Flashcards
Concept maps enable learners to focus on how concepts relate to one another, students ___ material better.
Organize.
Concept maps enable learners to notice how new concepts are related to things they already know, thus, they’re more likely to involve in ___ learning.
meaningful.
Like other graphic techniques, concept maps can help learners encode information in long-term memory both ___ and ___.
visually; verbally.
How can student-constructed concept maps help teachers?
Student-constructed concept maps can help teachers identify possible gaps and misconceptions in students’ understanding.
How do different types of assessment affect learners’ choice of strategies?
If the assessment requires students to remember facts, learners are more likely to use rote learning; whereas the assessment requires students to apply what has been learned, they are more likely to elaborate on what they have learned.
Notes are more useful when they’re relatively comprehensive-including ______, supporting details, and learners’ personal ___.
main ideas; elaborations.
How does summarizing facilitate long-term storage?
To write a good summary, learners must discriminate between important and unimportant information, so that they can spend more time attending to important information, to process it further for storage into long-term memory; afterwards, learners must organize important information into a cohesive whole, in which learners not only need to elaborate on new information, but also identify relationships either among items in the information with previously stored information, thus involve themselves in meaningful learning.
What is the illusion of knowing?
It is a cognitive phenomenon in which learners think they understand something they actually misunderstand.
How to overcome the illusion of knowing?
By periodically engaging themselves in comprehension monitoring.
What is an effective strategy for comprehension monitoring?
Constantly self-questioning and review.Because it enables learners to engage with the information multiple times, which provides more time for further processing before it can be firmly stored in long-time memory.
______ may be more effective for learning general principles within a discipline
Meaningful learning.
___ may be more effective for learning hard-to-remember pairs or lists.
Mnemonics.
Organizing ideas in ___ fashion may be appropriate for topics with one advance organizer/superordinate concept.
hierarchical.
Organizing ideas in a _________ table may be appropriate for comparing two sets of items.
two-dimensional
______ is answering questions about the material learned. It is an effective learning strategy because it lays down a pathway or creates an avenue for accessing this material.
Self-testing.
