With more and more Chinese students applying to foreign universities, the emphasis on the rote memorization required for the gao kao has come under criticism from some U.S. educators.
We speculated that repeating these activities might positively influence acquisition of memorization strategies for the participants.
Previous work has highlighted the student perception that open-note tests require application and analysis of key concepts, as opposed to the rote memorization for which biology courses are often known (Seymour and Hewitt, 1997; Momsen et al., 2010).
Its simplicity eliminates the need for elaborate calculations requiring bed-side computers or memorization of the different schemes for the score point assignment.
In reworking the homework problems, majors were using a technique of "deliberate practice," which has been shown to be more valuable than rote memorization for improving conceptual understanding (Ericsson, 2006), especially in the context of feedback such as comparing the correct answer with their own (Gibbs and Simpson, 2004).
At the beginning of the Fall semester, when asked "How important is memorization for biologists to be successful?," students in both groups agreed that memorization was very important.
"We're excited to bring that experience to flashcards in order to help school kids suffering through memorization for tests.
The readability, understanding and memorization of the information were validated in ten patients treated for myeloma.
The response was given through the numerical computer keyboard; the participant should press the number 1 key if the test stimulus was equal to one of the items presented for memorization, or press the number two key if the test stimulus was different from those presented for memorization.
In the intact positive trials, the test stimulus was one of the shapes presented for memorization in the same color as that of the memorized stimulus.
