ABSTRACT
Memory is especially important in education. Throughout school, we spend significant time trying to learn new things with the goal of remembering what we learned at some time in the future, whether that is within the next few days or weeks for a test or other assessment of some kind, or in the longer term to use in our lives. Even when the goal of education is not purely “remembering” and rather applying, it is still essential to remember the concepts that we wish to apply. This chapter covers how background knowledge, experience, and attention affect how we learn and remember, strategies for improving learning and retention (retrieval practice, spaced practice, elaboration, and interleaving), how to monitor and assess our learning (metacognition), and the important process of applying what we have learned to new situations (transfer).
