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Tag Archives: Levels of processing
Germane load: The right kind of mental effort?
Despite our vast capacity to hold information in long term memory; our working memory is extremely limited and becomes overloaded very easily. Greater insight into these problems and some practical ideas about what to do about them comes from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bjork, Cognitive load, Craik, Levels of processing, Sweller
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What is active learning?
“The art of remembering is the art of thinking . . . our conscious effort should not be so much to impress or retain (knowledge) as to connect it with something already there” William James, 1890 “Memory is the residue … Continue reading
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Tagged Assessment for learning, Levels of processing, Psychology, Working memory
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Evidence into Practice 