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14 Apr The Default Major: Skating Through B-School

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Paul M. Mason does not give his business students the same exams he gave 10 or 15 years ago. “Not many of them would pass,” he says. Read the full text from this article in today's New York Times here. ...

19 Feb Is Test-Taking a Good Study Method?

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I found this recent article in the NYTimes enlightening in a "back to the future" way. It discusses several studies on how retrieval testing seems to be a better approach for cementing knowledge in students. "The struggle helps you learn, but it makes you feel like you’re not learning,” said Nate Kornell, a psychologist at Williams College. “You feel like: ‘I don’t know it that well. This is hard and I’m having trouble coming up with this information.’ By contrast, he said, when rereading texts and possibly even drawing diagrams, “you say: ‘Oh, this is easier. I read this already.’...