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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.

Students transfer bad study habits from paper to screen

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.