STUDY TIPS: Dartmouth's Best Practices

The ability to study and retain knowledge is not something unique to Bible Quizzing, or even unique to the teen years of life. All of life is a learning process, whether as a student, business-person, parent, or teacher. And to help us keep that learning going, Dartmouth College has put out a series of informative papers on best practices for learning. This is good stuff for Bible Quizzing, for school, or for any time.

Memories fade away rapidly when not reviewed or used. The curve of forgetting is like a playground slide; we forget most immediately after we learn -in the first 24 hours; then it proceeds slowly. Motor learning seems to be better retained than verbal learning because a motor act has to be completely done to be done at all and so requires a higher degree of organization and competency which involves over-learning.

Take a look. You may find information useful as we head towards the end of the school year, too!