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Implications for Education
Teachers also give students practice exercise to
help ensure the transfer of information from short-
term memory to long-term memory.
The use of Gagne’s “Bottom-up approach” –
students learn lower skills first.
Ausubel’s “Top-down” approach – teachers provide
advance organizer or overviews of the way
information will be presented to help students
develop mental frameworks on which to “hang”
new information.
