Webinar Replay Now Available -Revision Habits for Best Exam Retention
Published: Fri, 09/09/22
Replay Available- Revision Habits for Best Exam Retention
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Replay Webinar - Supercharge your Child's Learning II: Revision Habits for Best Exam Retention
Thank you to all who attended our webinar last week with Ms Cheryl Chia.
Here are the 3 key takeaways:
1) We have positive thoughts about learning but negative thoughts about exams:
An exam is simply a measure of learning
We should shift our focus away from "exams" towards
“learning”
It should not be so much about “doing well in exams” but “have you learnt?”
2) Three best research-based revision habits are discussed:
Space repetition - spread out revision over time
Interleaved revision - mix up revision
topics
Retrieval practice - test recall from memory
3) Effective revision habits may be perceived as “hard” by students:
Researchers recognise that effective strategies are not easy to put into practice.
However, it is because of this difficulty —the
process of learning, forgetting and retrieving that eventually pushes new knowledge into our long-term memory.
In the short term, it is easier not to use these strategies, but in the long term, these strategies help us to retain information and learn better