Drawing best encoding strategy
In a series of experiments involving college students, drawing pictures was found to be the best strategy for remembering lists of words.
In a series of experiments involving college students, drawing pictures was found to be the best strategy for remembering lists of words.
No big surprise, surely: a new study has found that computers do not magically improve students’ study skills — they tend to study online material using the same techniques they would use with traditional texts. Which means, it appears, poor strategies.