The Common Core, adopted by all but a handful of states, could move the nation away from rote memorization — and those cheap, color-in-the-bubble tests — and toward a writing-intensive system that gives students the reasoning skills they need in the new economy.
For generations of law school graduates, summer has often been an illusory concept, one replaced by long days spent in airless study halls or makeshift classrooms practicing mind-numbing rote memorization in preparation for the high-stakes bar exam in late July, a time when most of their friends are enjoying backyard barbecues or lazy afternoons at the beach.
Yes, I plan to attempt a public memorization again in the near future.
We used randomly generated documents rather than documents written by us, to avoid a memorization bias in the usability evaluation.
When asked whether memorizing the variables posed problems for her, Ashlyn elaborated on her views about the role of memorization in learning equations: Ashlyn: It's memorizing how they fit together.
Behaviors recruit multiple, mutually substitutable types of cognitive resources (e.g., data acquisition and memorization in comparative visual search), and the allocation of resources is performed in a cost-optimizing way.
We suggest that the natural longer inter-chunk pauses enhance song memorization in young birds and might therefore play an important role in the song-learning process (Hultsch and Todt 1989a, b; ten Cate and Slater 1991; Williams and Staples 1992; Suge and Okanoya 2010; Takahasi et al. 2010).
However, according to some experts, it is somewhat hampered in its development of innovation because of the focus on rote memorization in its educational system as opposed to knowledge gained through creative exploration.
In the current study, we examine the role of both pauses and co-occurrence on song memorization in adult zebra finches.
John B. King Jr., the state education commissioner, said that there was "more testing than is needed" in some districts and that some schools were too focused on rote memorization in preparing for exams.
