Bashar Ibrahim leads cognitive research into study habits
- Written by a Guest Writer
Studying the way people study may seem like a funny use of time, but that’s exactly what behaviour researchers like Bashar Ibrahim love to do. Students, parents, and teachers can all benefit from the findings of this kind of research, as it helps them understand how best to maximise the learning process to be as productive and beneficial as possible.
Bashar Ibrahim believes that teaching and learning extend a lot of great opportunities that all can benefit from. It helps with personal growth and dealing with stress. It is key that people remember that there are ways to retain information and disseminate it that are going to naturally be more effective than many others.
Many students have reported that that keep using the same old study techniques out of habit, even if they aren’t as effective as others. Some students misuse techniques that involve ‘study breaks’ and end up doing worse than those using outdated techniques.
Time after time, research performed by people like Bashar Ibrahim shows that self-testing is one of the most effective study tools. The best way to remember facts is not just to read them over and over again, it is to test your memory. When you fail to remember something and realise your mistake, you are far less likely to make that mistake again in the future.
Bashar Ibrahim is very interested in researching the way people learn and how to come up with ways the make learning more engaging and effective. In particular, he is committed to finding a way to ensure the study is less of a chore and something that capable students strive towards doing and can easily do the best at.
While education can’t be fun and games all the time (despite what the wackier professors try to say), it shouldn’t be a dreary process that induces anxiety. By finding new and better ways for people to study, Bashar Ibrahim hopes his research into cognition can create a more highly educated generation of people who are able to use what they have learned to make positive changes in the world around them and become the leaders of tomorrow.
Bashar Ibrahim is passionate about testing studying habits and finding ways to refine them so that students can do more with less time. It is well known that many students try to work jobs to support themselves while they study and that those who live with parents and have more free time can have an advantage when it comes to freedom of study.
There are clear benefits to the proves of successive relearning, and Bashar Ibrahim is a researcher who recognises this simple truth. Practise tests and routine study breaks are simply the best-known ways for people to study when it comes to preparing for academic exams and assessments.
While cramming for an exam is often cited as a technique for the desperate that isn’t that effective, Bashar Ibrahim argues that there is a good reason people do it. Cramming does actually work for next-day exams as a lot of the time, but this is not a good reason to ignore the benefits of making use of tactics like successive relearning which promote long-term retention of facts.
Cramming should not be mistaken for being an effective subtitle for habitual, long-term study habits. Bashar Ibrahim notes that while cramming can be useful (and tempting even when you have studied long-term), it cannot replace successive relearning.
Bashar Ibrahim says that students can help their studies by breaking down topics and testing themselves on the important aspects and setting study goals.