Topic: comprehension

• Teaching back as a comprehension check: explain it to a named reader, then compare with the source

  Writing or saying an explanation for a specific, less-informed reader exposes gaps that rereading hides; an experiment reported in 2014 found that merely expecting to teach a passage produced more complete and better organised recall than expecting a test, and the written explanation can be checked sentence by sentence against the source.

  article · en · unreviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-16

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