Moving beyond rote memorization to build complex, interconnected knowledge structures.
Elaboration: Explaining new material in your own words. Generation: Solving a problem before being taught the method.
The ability to extract key rules and underlying principles from new information to build a mental framework.
Internal representations of external reality that allow for inference and prediction.
The act of taking a few minutes to review what has been learned and asking oneself questions (Retrieval + Elaboration).
A hierarchical model classifying learning objectives from recall (Knowledge) to creation (Synthesis).