What activities lead to learning? Empirical studies seeking answers to this question have shown the most effective ways to make learning durable and versatile are not intuitive. In fact, they often take more effort and feel less productive than conventional methods.
Some teachers and trainers work hard to make new material clear and simple, but when learning is easy, it doesn’t stick. Common student study strategies—rereading, highlighting and underlining—turn out to be largely labor in vain. Single-minded, focused repetition of a new skill? The gains you observe during this kind of massed practice lean on short-term memory and quickly fade.
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