week 11 revision strategies

Question 1

learning styles

Answer 1

the notion that different people have different modes of instruction that are most effective for them

Question 2

4 learning styles

Answer 2

auditory, visual, reading/writing, kinesthetic

Question 3

how to test learning style hypothesis

Answer 3

2 groups of each learning style, half get info in preferred sensory mode then switch to another.

SAME test and info for everyone

see cross over interaction

Question 4

problem with learning styles

Answer 4

no complling evidence

people don’t recall more info when learning in their preferred style

much better to focus on using strong evidence based strategies - tailor your task to what you’re trying to learn not your learning style

Question 5

what did Dunlosky et al 2013 do

Answer 5

systematically review learning strategies and categories them as low, moderate and high utility

Question 6

what is in the low utility category

Answer 6

summarization, highlighting or underlining, re-reading, keyword mnemonic

Question 7

cons of summarization

Answer 7

distinguish between important and unimportant info - quality of summary varies with each student

also depends on if students have access to notes - can use retrieval practice if no notes

they might copy word for word and not actually understand content

students need to be trained in summarising

Question 8

Peterson 1991 - highlighting

Answer 8

students read textbook chapter, some underlined some didn’t

2 months later - MCQ

similar performance on questions that tapped specific knowledge, but underlining group performed worse than control group on questions that required inferences

Question 9

what are moderate utility strategies

Answer 9

elaborative interrogation, interleaved practice

Question 10

elaborative interrogation

Answer 10

producing an explanation for why a fact or concept is true or false

Question 11

interleaved practice

Answer 11

dunlosky et al 2013 - implementing a schedule of practice that mixes different kinds of problems, or a schedule of study that mixes different kinds of a material, within a single study session

Question 12

what are high utility strategies

Answer 12

practice testing, distributed practice

Question 13

what does distributed practice encompass

Answer 13

spacing effects and lag effects

Question 14

top revision strategies

Answer 14

retrieval practice, generate info, spacing, interleaving