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Study skills: Effective use of revision guides

Revision guides are popular resources with many teachers and parents, but do students use them properly? Helen Webb looks at how to teach students to use revision guides more effectively

Schools and parents invest huge amounts of money buying revision guides for students. However, many students have no idea how to use them to learn effectively.

Based on evidence from cognitive psychology (Dunlosky et al, 2013) which is summarised in Robert Coe et al’s review of the underpinning research – What Makes Great Teaching? – this article provides a variety of hints and tips for teachers to use in the classroom so that their students can make better use of these resources at home.



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