Study Skills: Summary of effective study techniques
| Pro Tips: How to Study: research from psychologists working at the Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab in UCLA | Link | Vimeo 5 mins |
| The science of revision: nine ways pupils can revise for exams more effectively | Link | Ditch the highlighter and teach a friend. From theguardian.com |
| How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies |
Author Benedict Carey informs us that “most of our instincts about learning are misplaced, incomplete, or flat wrong” and “rooted more in superstition than in science.” From Ingfei Chen at blogs.kqed.org/ |
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| The lesson you never got taught in school: How to learn! | Link | From bigthink.com |
| Re-reading is inefficient. Here are 8 tips for studying smarter | Link | From vox.com |
| How Do We Learn? How Should We Learn? | Link | Blogpost from usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com |
| Using cognitive neuroscience to maximise learning | Link | From trainingjournal.com |
| Improving Classroom Performance by Challenging Student Misconceptions About Learning | Wonderful paper from an educational psychologist which describes several demonstrations that teachers can use for instructing students how to study more effectively. From psychologicalscience.org |
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What can science tell us about how students learn best? |
In summary: minimise overload, maximise retrieval and automate and accumulate knowledge New website at researched2013.co.uk |
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| How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies | Link | By Ingfei Chen via ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/ |
Revision techniques - the good, the OK and the useless |
Link | Text-based from bbc.com |
Really good critique of common techniques |
Link | Blogpost. Read this again and again. Then read it again. From evidenceintopractice.wordpress.com |
| Four principles of memory improvement: A guide to improving learning efficiency. The link is to the pdf file | Link | Paper from the International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving (2011) |
| Strengthening the Student Toolbox: Study Strategies to Boost Learning. | Link | Well-known paper in pdf format from John Dunlosky - professor of psychology in Kent State University |
| Memory Skills That Will Make You Smarter Review of ‘Make it Stick – the science of successful learning” |
Link | From businessinsider.com Includes references to Retrieval, Elaboration, Generation |
| Five secrets to revising that can improve your grades | Link | From theguardian.com |
The Science of Learning |
Link | pdf from DeansforImpact.org |
Links to lots of blogposts on metacognition or study skills |
Link | Blogpost from tdreboss |
| Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology | Link | Comprehensive but detailed paper from the Association for Psychological Science (2013) |
| Overview of some concepts on how students learn | From learningspy.co.uk | |
| Study techniques: How to study long and hard and still fail | Series of lectures on YouTube from samford.edu Very useful |
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| General study tips for students | From studentenrichment.ie | |
| Revision techniques | The good, the OK and the useless. From bbc.co.uk | |
| Some good advice but also some terrible clangers in this infographic | Can you identify the good and the bad advice here? From studynotes.ie | |
| "half the participants were told to rate the pleasantness of each word, and half were told to check if the word contained the letters ‘e’ or ‘g’." | Link | Outline of the Hyde and Jenkins experiment (1973) which compared incidental and intentional learning. From mindhacks.com |
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Explain the concepts |
From edweek.org | |
| Students learn better when they think they're going to have to teach the material | From bps.org.uk (British Psychological Society) | |
| Repeating aloud to another person boosts recall | Link | |
| Great Debate: Why Arguing Is The Best Way To Learn | From anniemurphypaul.com | |
| A short quiz on study skills | Link | Stored on googledrive |
| Do you know how to make the most of your study time? Take this quiz and find out |
Link | 4 short multiple choice questions from the American Psychological Association |