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Forget the Graphic Organizers, Does Taking Tests Help You Learn? - Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas

Forget the Graphic Organizers, Does Taking Tests Help You Learn? - Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas

Forget the Graphic Organizers, Does Taking Tests Help You Learn?

Learning-through-testingThis should stir things up!

A New York Times story "Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say" (January 21, 2011) reports...

Graph: NY Times

"Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques.

The research, published online Thursday in the journal Science, found