Study Strategies Defined

• Most study strategies are a combination of selection and rehearsal strategies.
• Rehearsal strategies: increasing repetitions of exposure to the material.
• Selection strategies: determining which specific parts of the material warrant multiple exposures.

Rehearsal Activities and Definitions

• Restating or Paraphrasing:
  helps organize material into student's schema
  
• Repetition and Cumulative Rehearsal:
  drill and practice
  
• Questioning and Answering:
  self tests or oral drills
  
• Predicting and Clarifying:
  write your own questions regarding the material
  
• Reviewing and Summarizing:
  reread the important parts of the material and write an overview of the important parts
  
• Selecting:
  decide what information is likely to be most important to the teacher (hence what will be on the test)
  
• Note Taking:
  write ideas, definitions, propositions, etc. that have been selected as being important
  
• Underlining:
  in text materials, students mark material that has been selected as important