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Advice for College Students

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This brief (and admirably clear) article offers guidance to college students on the study strategies that have research support — and, helpfully, those that don’t.

The authors offer a few sources to verify their claims, explain why some counter-intuitive strategies work better that more traditional ones, and even toss in a few un-researched but entirely plausible suggestions.

(One minor disagreement: the authors cite the Mueller & Oppenheimer study to discourage laptop note-taking. Regular readers of the blog know I think that study doesn’t support its own conclusions.)


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