Make It Stick

Question 1

What is the best way to study?

Answer 1

Self-quizzing; retrieving knowledge and skill from memory.

Question 2

What questions does a learner ask him or herself when he or she is using retrieval practice to study (without looking at the book)?

Answer 2

1. What are the key ideas?
2. What terms or ideas are new to me?
3. How would I define them?
4. How do the ideas related to what I already know?

Question 3

What is spaced practice?

Answer 3

Spaced practice means studying information more than once but leaving considerable time between practice sessions.

Question 4

What is interleaving?

Answer 4

A baseball player who practices batting by swinging at fifteen fastballs,, then fifteen curveballs, and then at fifteen change-ups will perform better in practice than the player who mixes it up. But the player who asks for random pitches during practice builds his ability to decipher and respond to each pitch as it comes his way and he becomes the better hitter.

Question 5

What is elaboration?

Answer 5

Elaboration is the proçess of finding additional layers of meaning in new material.