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What is a Summary?

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What is a Summary?

An explanation to summaries and summarising in terms of generative learning.

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Everyday context

  • Summary is a common process used in everyday life. It can crop up when we retell stories, reflect on past events and think about earlier conversations.
  • Summarising involves abbreviating, selecting important points and redacting the unnecessary.
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Generative learning

  • Summarising in generative learning requires students to collage and reorganise the main points from their learning.
  • This can happen at different points in the learning process.
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Increased efficacy

  • Summarising is the most effective where the learning is not reliant on spatially complex material.
    • For example, diagrams and tables already present condensed or synthesised data.

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1Introduction

1.1From Teaching to Learning

1.1.1Context in the Education Landscape 1

1.1.2Context in the Education Landscape 2

2Summarising

2.1Learning by Summarising

2.1.1What is a Summary?

2.1.2Learn by Summarising

2.1.3Summarisation at Work

2.1.4Case Study: Adam Riches

3Self-Testing

3.1Learning by Self-Testing

3.1.1Learning by Self-Testing

3.1.2Case Study: Emma Smith

4Self-Explaining

4.1Learning by Self-Explaining

4.1.1Learning by Self-Explaining

4.1.2Case Study: Ceridwen Eccles

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Context in the Education Landscape 2

Learn by Summarising