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Make It Stick Summary & Review: Why Effortful Learning Lasts
Make It Stick shows why rereading fails and retrieval, spacing, and desirable difficulty make learning last — plus a 7-day plan to…
Read Summary →Mark A. McDaniel
"Learning scientist applying memory research to how people study."
Mark A. McDaniel is an American psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis who studies learning, memory, and how cognitive science should change classrooms and training. He co-authored Make It Stick with Peter C. Brown and Henry L. Roediger III.
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Effortful practice that you can still complete — spacing, mixing, generating — is how knowledge becomes flexible.
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Make It Stick Summary & Review: Why Effortful Learning Lasts
Make It Stick shows why rereading fails and retrieval, spacing, and desirable difficulty make learning last — plus a 7-day plan to use the science this week.