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Make It Stick: The Science Of Successful Learning [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Psychology)
  • Author:  Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
  • Author:  Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
  • ISBN-10:  0674729013
  • ISBN-10:  0674729013
  • ISBN-13:  9780674729018
  • ISBN-13:  9780674729018
  • Publisher:  Belknap Press
  • Publisher:  Belknap Press
  • Pages:  336
  • Pages:  336
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-Jul-2014
  • Pub Date:  01-Jul-2014
  • SKU:  0674729013-11-MING
  • SKU:  0674729013-11-MING
  • Item ID: 100009804
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To most of us, learning something the hard way implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier.Make It Stickturns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.

Memory plays a central role in our ability to carry out complex cognitive tasks, such as applying knowledge to problems never before encountered and drawing inferences from facts already known. New insights into how memory is encoded, consolidated, and later retrieved have led to a better understanding of how we learn. Grappling with the impediments that make learning challenging leads both to more complex mastery and better retention of what was learned.

Many common study habits and practice routines turn out to be counterproductive. Underlining and highlighting, rereading, cramming, and single-minded repetition of new skills create the illusion of mastery, but gains fade quickly. More complex and durable learning come from self-testing, introducing certain difficulties in practice, waiting to re-study new material until a little forgetting has set in, and interleaving the practice of one skill or topic with another. Speaking most urgently to students, teachers, trainers, and athletes,Make It Stickwill appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement.

If you want to read a lively and engaging book on the science of learning, this is a must&Make It Stickbenefits greatly from its use of stories about people who have achieved mastery of complex knowledge and skills. Over the course of the book, the authors weave together stories from an array of learnerssurgeons, pilots, gardeners, and school and university studentsto illustrate their argumentsl¸

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