Why You Forget 70% of What You Study (and How to Stop It)

Why You Forget 70% of What You Study (and How to Stop It) how to slove it sources Ebbinghaus, H. (1885). Über das Gedächtnis (English translation: Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology, 1913). This is the forgetting curve. Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K., Marsh, E., Nathan, M., & Willingham, D. (2013). "Improving Students' Learning With Effective Learning Techniques." Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4-58. This covers highlighting and rereading as low-utility, and practice testing and spaced practice as high-utility. Roediger, H. & Karpicke, J. (2006). "Test-Enhanced Learning: Taking Memory Tests Improves Long-Term Retention." Psychological Science, 17(3), 249-255. This is active recall and the testing effect. Cepeda, N., Pashler, H., Vul, E., Wixted, J., & Rohrer, D. (2006). "Distributed Practice in Verbal Recall Tasks: A Review and Quantitative Synthesis." Psychological Bulletin, 132(3), 354-380. This is spaced repetition. Rohrer, D. & Taylor, K. (2007). "The Shuffling of Mathematics Problems Improves Learning." Instructional Science, 35, 481-498. This is interleaving.