Mnemonics
Overview
- Influence: Mnemonics
- Domain: Student Learning Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Learning strategies
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
- Influence Definition: A practice by which students learn and organize a significant amount of information for long-term recall by memory. There are five classes of mnemonics: linguistic, spatial, visual, physical, and verbal (e.g., HOMES for the Great Lakes).
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 4
- Number of studies: 166
- Number of students: 4,278
- Number of effects: 191
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.65
- Robustness index: 3
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nature: Science of Learning | Hattie & Donoghue | Learning strategies: A synthesis and conceptual model | 2016 | Mnemonics | 107 | 580 | 107 | 0.50 | |
| Dissertation | Runyan | Effects of mnemonic-keyword method on recalling verbal information: a meta-analysis | 1987 | Mnemonic keyword recall program | 32 | 3,698 | 51 | 0.64 | |
| Educational Psychology Review | Mastropieri & Scruggs | Constructing more meaningful relationships: Mnemonic instruction for special populations. | 1989 | Mnemonic keyword recall program | 19 | NA | 19 | 1.62 | |
| Asia Pacific Education Review | Kim, Kim, Lee, Park, Hong, & Kim | Effects of cognitive learning strategies for Korean learners: A meta-analysis | 2008 | Mnemonics | 8 | NA | 14 | 0.45 | |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 166 | 4,278 | 191 | 0.80 | |||||