Rehearsal and memorization
Overview
- Influence: Rehearsal and memorization
- Domain: Student Learning Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Learning strategies
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
- Influence Definition: Rehearsal is a term used by memory researchers to refer to mental techniques for helping us remember information. It can involve many strategies such as repeating information to be memorized by organizing it at random and repeating the information when prompted by a visual cue, such as an index card or photograph.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 4
- Number of studies: 151
- Number of students: 0
- Number of effects: 151
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.71
- Robustness index: 3
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dissertation | Lavery | New Zealand | Self-regulated learning for academic success: An evaluation of instructional techniques | 2008 | Rehearsal and memorization | 99 | 0 | 99 | 0.57 |
| Journal of Behavioral Education | Burns, Zaslofsky, Kanive, & Parker | USA | Meta-analysis of incremental rehearsal using phi coefficients to compare single-case and group designs. | 2012 | Incremental rehearsal | 19 | 0 | 19 | 1.67 |
| Educational Research Review | Donker, de Boer, Kostons, van Ewijk, & Van der Werf | Netherlands | Effectiveness of learning strategy instruction on academic performance: A meta-analysis. | 2014 | Rehearsal (Playing flashcards to learn new word) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 1.39 |
| Australian Journal of Education | Purdie & Hattie | Australia | The Relationship between Study Skills and Learning Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis | 1999 | Memorization | 23 | 0 | 23 | 0.23 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 151 | 0 | 151 | 0.97 | |||||