How to study: Forget what you know
Morgan Ferqueron, Jay Harris, and Sara Gray
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As college students, we have to study regularly. The hardest part of studying often is finding the most effective way to do it. The students of the Fall 2019 Honors 294 class Forget What You Know: Exploring Human Memory, taught by Dr. Shana Southard-Dobbs, designed a website as our final class project. Our main goal was to help students find more effective ways to study and remember information. Using the book Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Brown, Roediger, & McDaniel, 2014), we created a website featuring a series of articles and videos to inform students about the most effective study techniques. There are informational articles as well as personal stories from students in different majors on how they use those techniques within their major. The four main study techniques we focused on were elaboration, interleaving, spaced practice, and retrieval practice.
Morgan Ferqueron is a sophomore psychology major, and a student in the Honors College. She is a LINK 101 peer leader, a PSYC 101 supplemental instructor, vice president of Lander’s English Club, and an editor of the Honors College Newsletter.
Jay Harris is a senior double major in psychology and English. They are a member of the Honors College, Psi Chi, and Sigma Tau Delta. They have participated in the Academic Symposium before with a presentation on Memes and Mental Health.
Sara Gray is a sophomore psychology major with a minor in criminology. She is a member of the Honors College and was recently accepted into Psi Chi.