VARIABLES | 1st year N (%) | 5th year N (%) | P | |
Memorization strategy: |
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Memorizing by heart (superficial learning) | 32 (18.2%) | 25 (17.7%) |
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Understanding the course before memorizing | 144 (81.8%) | 116 (82.3%) |
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Memorization tips: |
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Reciting to someone else | 20 (11.3%) | 19 (13.5%) | 0.556 | |
Paraphrasing (rewriting in own words) what you want to retain | 46 (26%) | 34 (24.1%) | 0.701 | |
Reading the course several times | 111 (62.7%) | 98 (69.5%) | 0.204 | |
Constructing a main word from several key words (e.g. FES = Frontal bone, Ethmoid bone, Sphenoid bone) | 55 (31.1%) | 53 (37.6%) | 0.222 | |
Other: | 10 (5.6%) | 7 (5%) |
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▪ Listening to audio | 1 (0.6%) | - |
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▪ Turning the course into a story | 1 (1.1%) | 1 (0.7%) |
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▪ Understanding the course very well | 1 (0.6%) | - |
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▪ Turning course into questions | 1 (0.6%) | - |
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▪ Reciting aloud | 2 (1.1%) | - |
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▪ Activing recall | 1 (0.6%) | - |
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▪ Singing | 1 (0.6%) | - |
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▪ Mnemonics | 1 (0.6%) | - |
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▪ Diagramming the course | - | 1 (0.7%) |
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▪ Rewriting the course | - | 1 (0.7%) |
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▪ Reciting mentally | - | 1 (0.7%) |
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▪ Explaining the course to himself | - | 1 (0.7%) |
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▪ Asking someone else to explain the course | - | 1 (0.7%) |
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