… and stop just re-reading your textbook.

Huge study shows that most commonly used revision methods are the least effective

Although a huge amount of research has been carried out over more than a century, looking at learning methods and how effective they are in different circumstances, this knowledge has largely stayed within academia and hasn’t filtered down to either students or teachers.

So it’s not surprising, then, to find that the most commonly-used revision methods are actually the least effective, and people are often fooling themselves about how well they know something that they are revising. Continue reading “Put down that highlighter!”