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Tests aren't just a way for teachers to torture their students, according to a new study that finds the brain encodes better mental hints during test-taking than during studying alone. 考试不仅仅是老师用来折磨学生的手段，因为 新研究表明，考试时大脑消化吸收学习材料的效果要比只是学习看书时产生的效果好一些。 Although many people view tests as a way to mark and grade students' progress, research has found that the act of retrieving information from memory actually makes remembering it easier. In other words, tests improve learning. 人们把考试视作给学生进步打分的工具，然而研究发现，从记忆中检索信息这一行为可使人们记东西加容易。换句话说，考试能让你学识渊博。 The study author Mary Pyc, a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis and her co-author Katherine Rawson investigated pieces of information called "mediators." Mediators are concepts, ideas or phrases that connect one piece of information to another. To be a good mediator, the idea has to be both easy to remember and easy to link to the information you're trying to retrieve. 该研究论文的撰稿人、华盛顿大学博士后玛丽-佩克和她的同事凯瑟琳-罗森着手于研究名为“介质”的信息碎片。“介质”实际上就是一些概念、观点或者短语，它们是连接各条信息的桥梁。要成为优质“介质”，相关观点必须易记且和你要检索的信息相关。 To investigate the effect of testing on mediators, Pyc and Rawson had 118 English-speaking participants learn 48 Swahili words. Some of the learners took tests on the information and then got to restudy the material before being tested again. Others only studied and restudied without tests. 为了调查考试对“介质”产生的效果，佩克和罗森让118名讲英语人士学习48个斯瓦希里语的单词。在之后的实验中，一部分学习者对所学内容进行测试，然后在再次测试前重新学习。而另一些人则只是学习、再学习，没有测试。 (责任编辑：admin) |
