Learning Strategies for Life

Elaborative Rehearsal

This skill involves explaining and describing ideas with many details and with connections to other information that you already know, your own experiences, memories, and day-to-day life experiences.

• Make a list. List the ideas you need to learn. • Ask yourself questions. Go through the list and ask yourself questions about how these ideas work and why. Pretend you are creating an exam. As you ask yourself questions, go through your class materials (e.g., your textbook, class notes, any materials your teacher has provided, etc.) and look for the answers to your questions. • Make connections. Make connections between the multiple ideas to be learned and explain how the ideas work together. A good way to do this is to take two ideas and think about ways they are similar and ways they are different. • Apply your experiences. Describe how the ideas you are studying apply to your own life experiences or memories. As you go through your day, take notice of things happening around you and make connections to the ideas you are learning in class. Space your learning over time. Regular review and interactions with the ideas and concepts are crucial to learning. • Make it yours. Work your way to describing and explaining the ideas you are learning on your own, in your own words with your own examples, without your class materials in front of you. Pretend you are creating an exam and an answer key. Teach it to someone else. In other word’s you should practice retrieval of the information!

To learn more about the 6 Levels of Learning to help you work with Elaborate Rehearsal, watch the Improve Your Study Skills video in the Study Skills self-help video module.

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