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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.
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.
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.
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.
1Introduction
1.1From Teaching to Learning
2Summarising
2.1Learning by Summarising
3Self-Testing
3.1Learning by Self-Testing
4Self-Explaining
4.1Learning by Self-Explaining
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1Introduction
1.1From Teaching to Learning
2Summarising
2.1Learning by Summarising
3Self-Testing
3.1Learning by Self-Testing
4Self-Explaining
4.1Learning by Self-Explaining
Practice questions on What is a Summary?
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- 1When is summarising the most effective?Multiple choice
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- 3Choose the correct statement about summarising.Multiple choice
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