Tuesday, January 25, 2011

To Really Learn, Testing Beats More Study

By RICK NAUERT PHD Senior News Editor
....“We continue to show that practicing retrieval, or testing yourself, is a powerful, robust tool for learning,” said Dr. Jeffrey D. Karpicke, an assistant professor of psychological sciences at Purdue University....
See the complete article at: http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/01/25/to-really-learn-testing-beats-more-study/22891.html Check out OWL's PALS program which is designed to help students to practice vocabulary in a fun way that tests their memory and their ability to retrieve information.