Lingua.ly is a nifty tool for aspiring polyglots because it has flashcards with recorded pronunciations, a dictionary, a repetition game to help with memorization, and several categories of articles to browse so users can see the words in common usage, instead of the more formal and stilted examples often found in textbooks.
However, many studies have indicated that Thai science teachers place too much emphasis on memorization and assessment-driven learning with a focus on fragmented knowledge, rather than scientific inquiry and core concepts (Atagi, 2002; Ketsing and Roadrangka 2010).
As a consequence, they have learned to associate MC questions with memorization (and other lower-level learning strategies: Scouller, 1998; Watters and Watters, 2007).
Almost everyone can remember an early experience when s/he was obsessed with memorization, and reciting and suddenly drew a blank.
Conversely, Asian countries' educational expectations are usually perceived as Confucian, with an emphasis on the memorization and reiteration of factual knowledge with respect for established expertise.
I spoke with our local pastor about memorization, and she said that she often sat with dying patients and those in the late stages of dementia.
Americans were convinced that Japanese education had been too concerned with rote memorization and indoctrination and that what Japan needed was a curriculum that encouraged initiative and self-reliance.
[M]embers of her traveling party met Palin at the Rtitz-Carlton near Reagan airport, in Pentagon City, Virginia – and found that, although she'd made some progress with her memorization and studies, her grasp of rudimentary facts and concepts was minimal.
It is because SVM tends to memorize all possible support vectors around the training curves which may be over-fitted for a simple function as Model 1. NN uses only 5 hidden neurons with less memorization and can achieve similar (or even better) performance for the simple patterns.
In contrast, the surface approach to learning is motivated by fear of failure and is associated with rote memorization and a perception of heavy workload demands in the course.
