VOLUME XXXIV NO. 1 JUNE - SPETEMBER 2020
Research
Study How You Study by Shaleisha Nicole Maza
Online education has replaced the traditional “learning from school” scheme in lieu of the pandemic. With an entirely different environment, students face unprecedented challenges as they adjust to new habits. Many may also be in the process of discovering their preferred learning style to fit the needs of the school year. Students may have tried studying habits such as studying for long periods of time, massed or blocked practice, reading and rereading a text, highlighting important concepts and reviewing them, and rewriting lecture notes. Unbeknownst to many, these are also some of the ineffective study methods that take up time and are an illusion of mastery (Kang, 2019). Effective learning comprises two important elements: comprehension and memorization. It is important to comprehend the material one is studying before actually memorizing it. (Jubbal, K., 2020). It is also essential for one to be engaged in intense learning techniques. This means focusing on studying less with greater intensity rather than studying for longer periods of time but not absorbing anything. This learning style is called Active Learning, or more commonly known as Active Recall, and is defined as “educational methods in which students are involved in higherorder thinking (analysis, synthesis, evaluation). The term therefore primarily reflects what is going on in a student’s mind, whether or not the body (or the mouth) is physically active” (Neal, 2010 as cited in Active Learning Strategies, n.d.). In other words, it involves retrieving information from memory through testing one’s self at every stage of the revision process. The basic elements of this learning technique include talking and listening, reading, writing, and reflecting, comprising the components under the different study methods. 37
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