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12 Recall 🧠 Techniques


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How can teachers (and parents) help young people recall information for exams?

In this post, I am going to recommend 12 recall strategies a teacher (or parent) can use with their students.

Regular readers of this website will know that I have been writing about cognitive science for a number of years. Recently, this has evolved into a closer look into working memory. The reason for this is that I have read lots of research that shows a direct correlation between student outcomes and cognitive science methods.

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