Students who teach others learn best The Protégé Effect
Students enlisted to tutor others, these researchers have found, work harder to understand the material, recall it more accurately and apply it more effectively. In what scientists have dubbed “the protégé effect,” student teachers score higher on tests than pupils who are learning only for their own sake. But how can children, still learning themselves, teach others? One answer: They can tutor younger kids.
Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2011/11/30/the-protege-effect/#ixzz1fNIZygUp
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