What are three barriers to rapid learning?
What are the steps needed to overcome each of the barriers?
How can the learner take responsibility for mastering the material to be learned in a lean and effective way?
Were you able to understand and implement a trial of deep processing, distributed practice in your class work?
Have you begun brain training to increase your bandwidth?
What are the results to date on time spent in study? Test scores?
This video illustrates the value of deep processing.
This video illustrates the value of distributed practice.
In my system the traditional class, lecture or reading is merely a DATA STACK of topics and relationships written on the Statement/PIE page which is the in box for stuff to be learned. The Jeopardy page is filled with questions that are well formed to show meaningful relationships to use in distributed practice at one day and weekly up to three weeks. The learning is inherent in question forming and extended by meta level question forming. Learning is therefore forming questions showing understanding. The questions are a form of test. Every review of the question prompt is distributed practice test taking that overcomes or demolishes the forgetting curve. Reviewing questions does not provoke anxiety like the actual test in class. The learner who processed the DATA STACK with well formed questions and practiced answering the questions using distributed practice has every reason for the same level of confidence as an open book, open ended test.
Acknowledging that tests increase symptoms of anxiety, what can we change to lower the probability or amount of anxiety beyond being prepared? Performance is ability minus anxiety, therefore reducing stress and anxiety during performance and testing is desirable.
Often body language and posture either enhances or negates test taking anxiety. Check out the following video and pay attention to the affect of proper posture or “power posing” in stress and confidence hormone levels.
Below is a video on good posture that will show you how to sit/stand in an “all day power pose.”
By the way, good posture does improve backs, diminish pain, improve confidence and diminish anxiety.
