Four Scientific Learning Techniques Lead to Effective Learning
Learning techniques are commonly used among college students. We are all familiar with some learning techniques like highlighting, summarization, rereading, self-testing, etc. Effective learning techniques can help us get the most of our time when we are trying to learn new things, also help improve our grades and remember the information we have learned accurately. However, how do we know which techniques are most useful and effective? Dunlosky et.al 2013 discussed 10 learning techniques in detail and offered a recommendation of their relative utility. The 10 techniques are elaborative interrogation, self-explanation, summarization, highlighting, the keyword mnemonic, imagery use for text learning, rereading, practice testing, distributed practice, and interleaved practice. The researchers used 4 categories of variables, which are learning conditions, student characteristics, materials, and criterion tasks to measure the generalizability of those techniques' be...