ABSTRACT
We’ve all experienced not being able to recall something that we know we know. What was the last movie you saw in the theater? The name of that person you know from high school you’ve just run into in the supermarket, or the three types of Roman columns? (The Roman columns got me on a quiz in a humanities course I took as an undergraduate. I haven’t forgotten them since.) The real value of learning, encoding, and consolidating information is the ability to access and use that information when you need it. The chapters in the book to this point have shown you how to learn in harmony with your brain. This chapter is designed to help you select and adopt behaviors that reinforce learning inside and outside the classroom to apply what you have learned in the classroom setting. The topics selected represent the majority of ways in which professors assign grades: class participation, homework, extra credit, writing papers, giving presentations, and taking tests.
