{"id":816,"date":"2021-03-21T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/?p=816"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:57:36","slug":"21-gaining-automaticity-in-vocabulary-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"21 &#8211; Gaining Automaticity in Vocabulary Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a way to speed student learning, increase problem-solving skill, and improve retention of knowledge students learn?<\/p>\n<p>Cognitive experts predict learning will be <em>accelerated<\/em> if at the start of a new topic, students gain \u201cautomaticity\u201d in recalling the definitions of new vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>Below we&#8217;ve posted an assignment that helps students learn initial <em>electrochemistry<\/em> vocabulary during homework.\u00a0 The assignment takes 10 minutes of class time but frees up 1-2 in-class hours for electrochem demonstrations and problem solving.<\/p>\n<p>Quizzes are included to encourage homework completion, and cognitive science supporting vocab automaticity is discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Helping students gain <em>automaticity<\/em> in recall of fundamentals is strongly supported by cognitive research &#8212; but experiments and tweaks are always required to adapt science to unique classroom conditions.\u00a0 Will &#8220;text-based homework and quiz&#8221; work for your students?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChemReview.Net\/pdfs\/ElectroPrepToInstructors.pdf\">http:\/\/www.ChemReview.Net\/pdfs\/ElectroPrepToInstructors.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a way to speed student learning, increase problem-solving skill, and improve retention of knowledge students learn? Cognitive experts predict learning will be accelerated if at the start of a new topic, students gain \u201cautomaticity\u201d in recalling the definitions&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/?p=816\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}