Understand rote learning, how it works in classrooms, its benefits, limitations, and where repetition-based learning still ...

A new study offers older adults a simple way to combat memory loss: memorization. Researchers found that seniors who engaged in an intensive period of rote learning followed by an equally long rest ...

To the editor: As an educator, I couldn’t agree more with Doug Lemov that learning and retaining basic facts, and creating a supportive, inclusive environment, are foundational to good pedagogy. What ...

Rote learning, colloquially referred to as 'cramming', is widely used in the mastery of foundational knowledge. Examples of topics where rote learning is regularly used in schools and colleges include ...

A question confronts many professors at the start of each semester: Which of their students can grasp a subject’s underlying concepts, and which are simply adept at memorizing? Both kinds of students ...

Forum writer Terence Lee sparked a debate this week with his call to weed out traditional methods of learning, specifically rote learning, in junior colleges. He says that it is outdated in an era ...

The government initiative to reform and revamp the education system in the country is timely and most welcome, provided it paves the way for meaningful change. Past attempts at education reforms have ...

For some time now, many educators in our society have been criticising the dominance of rote learning in our educational system and calling for adopting teaching/learning methods that are more ...

“Show me all the possible ways in which four friends, who go to a movie theater, can sit together in a row. ”Harvard professor Eleanor Duckworth asked this simple question that stumped me fifteen ...

It may not be the most fun method but rote learning for children will help them become better decision makers in the long run according to one expert. Dr Helen Abadzi, a specialist in cognitive ...