Effective Notetaking (Study Skills Book 1)

help you do that, elaborative interrogation guides you to construct reasons for the relationships between bits of information, taking you beyond the information given

the bottom line is that elaborative interrogation is an effective strategy when you have enough background knowledge to ask good questions. However, if you don’t know enough to ask good questions, you’re probably better choosing another strategy.

One of the reasons less successful learners are less successful is because they are often unaware that they haven’t understood something, or that they won’t remember something without deliberate effort.

Use concept maps as aids to understanding rather than memory

working memory capacity should make every effort to work in a distraction-free environment, clear their minds of distracting thoughts, focus on only one goal