Three Research-Based Study Skills That Work

There are three research-based study skills that have been shown through multiple research studies to be optimal when it comes to retention of information. Distributed practice is the idea that instead of, let's say your student has an office on Friday instead of studying an hour on Thursday night, taking that one hour and parsing it out. The key to distributed practice is sleep, you're cementing that information into long-term memory. 84% of students report that they study by simply rereading their textbook or their notes.