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

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 ...

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 ...

Across education systems in the Asia-Pacific region, there is a growing emphasis on transversal competencies, better known in the U.S. as 21 st century skills, and a move away from “traditional ...

Re “Real Test Is, Did the Kids Learn to Think?” Commentary, Nov. 5: Roger H. Weaver’s point that K-12 education is suffering from testing that does not test education other than rote learning is too ...

In the evolving landscape of education, two prominent learning approaches stand out: Rote Learning and Competency-Based Learning (CBL). While both aim to impart knowledge and skills, their ...

ONE of the ways in which the education system enables us to treat ourselves with psychological lullabies is by way of bombarding young minds with non-stop clutter related to what great strides our ...

CHICAGO -- 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 ...

NAPLAN has changed the way schools teach, with one top-performing school revealing it has sparked a return to rote learning. St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School has introduced two lessons a week in Year ...

CBSE Class 12 Organic Chemistry is often seen as memory-heavy, but it is built on clear patterns. From functional groups and ...

Aizawl: The Mizoram government will introduce experience-based curriculum in schools to replace rote learning, in a major ...