Flashcards

Students will:

• Select the option that best meets their needs:
  • Cram
  • Quizlet
  • StudyBlue
• Download the App to their mobile device
• Create your own data, images, audio, etc:
  • Flashcards
  • Games
  • Practice quizzes

How to best use these tools to enhance your learning? Try these research-supported strategies with your new Apps above:

• Distributed practice
  
  • Implementing a schedule of practice that spreads out study activities over time
  • Practice, review, engage with your learning materials periodically across the semester
• Practice testing
  • Self-testing or taking practice tests over to-be-learned material
• Elaborative interrogation
  • Generating an explanation for why an explicitly stated fact or concept is true
• Self explanation
  • Explaining how new information is related to known information, or explaining steps taken
    during problem solving

Source: Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students' learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science In The Public Interest, 14(1), 4-58. doi:10.1177/1529100612453266