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Memory Strategies Used By Teachers

Sau Hou Chang

Indiana University Southeast

Published

Spring 2015

Ohio Journal of Teacher Education, 29(1), 5-19.

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Abstract

The current study examines how teachers use memory strategies to present their lessons. Two

research questions are asked. First, what memory strategies do teachers use to teach their lessons?

Second, how do teachers use memory strategies in their instruction? Eleven teachers complete an

open-ended questionnaire to identify the memory strategies they use and give examples how they

use these strategies to teach. Rehearsal is found to be the most frequently used strategy, followed

by mental imagery, elaboration, mnemonics, and organization. Representative examples and

activities of these memory strategies are given to show how teachers use these strategies in their

classrooms.

Keywords: memory strategies, teachers, instruction

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Memory Strategies Used By Teachers

School learning involves memorizing a variety of information. Whether used by teachers

or students, memory strategies, such as elaboration, mental imagery, mnemonics, organization,

and rehearsal, are helpful in remembering information. Most studies on memory strategies in

classrooms focus on how students use these strategies, e.g., elaboration (Willoughby, Porter,

Belsito, & Yearsley, 1999), mental imagery (Bozorgmanesh & Mohmmad, 2012), mnemonics

(Scruggs, Mastropieri, Berkeley, & Marshak, 2010), organization (Pang, 1991), and rehearsal

(Tam, Jarrold, Baddeley, & Sabatos-DeVito, 2010).

Only a few studies on memory strategies in classrooms focus on how teachers use these

strategies. Pressley, Allington, Wharton-McDonald, Block, and Morrow (2001) noted that

teachers’ instruction of memory strategy is lacking in the intensity necessary for students to learn

how to use memory strategies effectively. In addition, Ornstein, Coffman, and Grammer (2009)

found that teachers vary considerably in how much they use memory-relevant language, such as

strategies and metacognitive questions (questions related to students’ knowledge of how memory

works) that encourage students to remember information.

Memory Strategies

The memory strategies recommended to teachers and students include elaboration, mental

imagery, mnemonics, organization, and rehearsal (Santrock, 2011; Schunk, 2012; Woolfolk,

2013). Discussion of each of these strategies is given as follows for teachers and students to

adopt.
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Elaboration. Adding distinctiveness to new information exemplifies the strategy of

elaboration. Woolfolk (2013) explained that elaboration assists encoding and retrieval of new

information because it links new information to older information. Ways to elaborate include

generating self-reference examples and constructing meaningful sentences. For example, to

remember how to spell the word, rendezvous, students can use elaboration to make a meaningful

sentence (e.g., the restaurant will be our rendezvous). Another way to elaborate is to answer

questions about new content. For example, to remember the fact that the Western Spotted Skunk

lives in a hole in the ground, students can ask, “Why would that fact be true?” When students

generate answers to why questions, they relate what they already know to the new information.

After examining elaboration strategy use as a function of prior knowledge with students in

elementary schools, Willoughby, Porter, Belsito and Yearsley (1999) got positive findings for

elaboration for all grade levels when learners have access to an extensive network of information.

In fact, elaboration is an effective memory strategy for both children and adults across a variety of

learning tasks (Pressley, Wood, Woloshyn, Mmartin, King, & Menke, 1992).

Mental imagery. Visualizing images of verbal information lead to the construction of

mental imagery. The dual coding theory (Paivio, 1971) states that memory for linguistic

information is enhanced if relevant imaginal information is activated, and such activation of

both verbal and nonverbal systems results in the dual coding of information. Schunk (2012)

suggested different ways to elicit students’ mental imagery, such as having students close their

eyes and think about a story scene, steps of an experiment, or dance movement, etc. For

example, to remember a historic incident, students can use mental imagery to visualize a

battlefield with eyes closed. After reviewing the use of mental imagery in classrooms, Douville
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(2004) concluded that mental imagery is best used in facilitating deep-level engagement in

reading, generating descriptive words in writing, and concretizing abstract mathematical

concepts.

Mnemonics. Imagery and words can be combined as mnemonics to aid memorization.

There are various types of mnemonic strategies: rhymes (e.g., “righty tighty, lefty loosey”),

spelling rules (e.g., “i before e except after c”), song lyrics (e.g., “head and shoulders, knees and

toes”), phrases (e.g., use “never eat soggy waffles” to remember the compass directions “north,

east, south, and west”), acronyms (e.g., use “HOMES” to remember the five Great Lakes –

Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior), method of loci (e.g., use the logical movement

after supper to remember “a tiger” on the countertop, “a monkey” in the sink, “a hippo” in the

dishwasher, and “a bald eagle” on the sofa), keyword method (e.g., connect vivid images of two

apples getting married to remember “Annapolis is the capital of Maryland”). After reviewing

educationally-relevant mnemonic strategy research, Levin (1994) stated that mnemonic strategies

equip students with skills to acquire straightforward factual information, but fail to promote

students’ independent transfer and application of information.

Organization. Connecting items to one another can organize information in such a way

that recalling one item also recalls other items linked to it. Santrock (2011) explained that

organization makes large amounts of information more manageable and more meaningful.

Woolfolk (2013) recommended the use of hierarchy to integrate pieces of information, the use of

chunking to group information into higher-order units to be remembered as single units, or the use

of outline to organize information. For example, to remember the 50 states, students can organize

states by region (West, South, Midwest, Northeast, East, etc). To remember vocabulary, students
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can group semantically related words by meanings (categories, instances, associates, synonyms,

etc.). Banerjee and White (2015) found that organizational strategy is highly specific to the

demands and goals of individual tasks even when tasks share commonalities such as involving the

same cognitive domain. It means that organizing words on the basis of semantic category

enhances memory of a word-list learning task, but organizing words on the basis of nonsemantic,

phonemic characteristics enhances language fluency of a word-generation task. Therefore,

organization strategy is one of the most efficient means of improving free recall in the absence of

cognitive support.

Rehearsal. Consciously rehearsing information over and over can somewhat slightly

extend the length of time it stays in memory. Santrock (2011) stated that rehearsal works best

when encoding and remembering of a list of items for a brief period of time, but it does not work

well when for retaining information over the long term. Woolfolk (2013) also mentioned that

rehearsal works well with highly overlearned material, such as multiplication facts, spelling

words, or a play script, but it does not work well for remembering more complex and meaningful

information. For example, to remember multiplication facts, students can repeat them over and

over verbally or in written form. However, Harris and Qualls (2000) stated that rehearsal is

primarily used for disposable memory traces, such as a single-use telephone number that would

be forgotten immediately after its use.

Memory Strategies in the Classroom

There are only a few studies on memory strategies in classrooms which focus on the types

of memory strategy teachers teach their students and the types of memory-relevant language

teachers use in the class. To observe the memory strategies teachers taught to support children’s
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learning, Moely, Hart, Leal, Santulli, Rao, Johnson, and Hamilton (1992) conducted a cross-

sectional study of classrooms from kindergarten through sixth grade. They observed how teachers

structured classroom learning activities in a range of subjects and how they monitored and

directed children’s study. To do so, they developed a coding system to record many aspects of the

teaching process, and used factor analyses to identify four factors: teachers’ responses to error;

positive interactive teaching; communicating task-related information; and cognitive processes

and strategies. Among these factors, cognitive processes and strategies included instances in

which teachers gave suggestions about studying or learning, such as offering rationales for

strategy use, providing information about appropriate cognitive processes for task performance;

advising of the need for memory activity, telling children not to engage in certain study strategies,

and requesting children’s questions or problems.

The authors found that the most commonly coded teacher behaviors included requests for

answers to questions. Instruction that called for children to engage in cognitive processing and

strategy use occurred rather infrequently. Teachers of grade 4 and above provided rationales for

the use of strategies more often than teachers of younger children. Teachers of lessons involving

mathematics activity and language arts suggested students use such strategies more than those

teaching lessons involving other activities. Teachers instructing language arts suggested deduction

strategies most often whereas teachers instructing mixed subject matter (including math) most

often promoted the use of specific aids for problem solving. Rehearsal was the memory strategy

taught most often by all teachers, followed by elaboration, and mental imagery. Subsequent

training in the use of the memory strategy of organization was also given to children. Among

average and low achievers of the group, those whose teachers were relatively high in strategy
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suggestions showed improved memory performance and more deliberate use of the organization

strategy than did children whose teachers rarely made strategy suggestions.

In contrast to the study of Moely, et al. (1992), Ornstein and his colleagues (Coffman et.

al., 2008; Ornstein, Coffman, & Grammer, 2009; Ornstein, Coffman, Grammer, San Souci, &

McCall 2010) undertook a longitudinal study to examine the memory-relevant language teachers

use during the course of instruction and the mnemonic goals expressed in their lessons. Based on

Moely, et al.’s cognitive processes and strategies factor, Ornstein et. al. developed a coding

instrument, the Taxonomy of Teacher Behaviors. The four categories of teacher memory-relevant

language in the Taxonomy concerned the nature and extent of various instructional memory-

related strategies: instructional activities (providing information about an upcoming activity),

cognitive structuring activities (encouraging children to engage with the materials in ways that

facilitate the encoding and retrieval of information), memory requests (asking students to retrieve

information or to prepare for future activities), and metacognitive information (providing or

soliciting metacognitive information with the goal of facilitating children’s performance). The

authors then followed students throughout their elementary school years and made several visits

to observe them in their classrooms. During each visit, one observer employed the Taxonomy and

another observer prepared a detailed contextual narrative of each lesson.

The authors found that instructional activity was the most frequent activity and memory

request was the second-most frequent activity. The narratives showed that most of these memory-

related requests were implied deliberate, in which the demand for the use of memory was implicit

without an expressed prompt to remember or not to forget, and a small percentage of these

requests were expressed deliberate, in which memory demands were explicitly stated. In addition,
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they also found that the achievement of low-achieving students increased when they were placed

in classrooms in which teachers were categorized as “high- mnemonic teachers” who frequently

embedded memory-relevant information in their teaching.

Purpose of the Present Study

Previous studies on how teachers use memory strategies focused on the types of memory

strategy teachers teach their students and the types of memory-relevant language they use in the

class. Moely, Hart, Leal, Santulli, Rao, Johnson, and Hamilton (1992) investigated how and when

teachers ask students to use study and memory strategies in the elementary school classroom.

Ornstein and his colleagues (Coffman et. al., 2008; Ornstein, Coffman, & Grammer, 2009;

Ornstein, Coffman, Grammer, San Souci, & McCall 2010) examined the memory-relevant

language teachers use to encourage students to use memory strategies during the course of

instruction in elementary school classrooms.

The current study further examines how teachers use memory strategies but the focus is on

the types of memory strategies teachers use to present their lessons. Two research questions are

asked. First, what memory strategies do teachers use to teach their lessons? Second, how do

teachers use memory strategies in their instruction? Getting to know the memory strategies other

teachers use help teachers make informed decisions how and when to use these strategies in their

own instruction.

Method

Participants

The participants in this study were 11 mathematics teachers enrolled in a graduate

program in education at a Midwestern state university. There were 3 males and 8 females with a
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mean age of 29.6 years, ranging from 22 to 44 years old. The average length of teaching

experience was 6.15 years, ranging from 1 to 21 years. One participant taught first grade, two

taught second-grade, four taught fourth-grade, and four taught fifth- grade.

Procedure

Participants completed an open-ended questionnaire as part of the requirement for a

graduate course in education. They were asked to write responses to two questions: “What

information did your students need to remember in the subject you teach?” and “What strategies

did you use to help your students to remember this information? ” The first question served as a

lead-in to help participants answer the second question. The responses shared by participants in

the second question were coded if they fitted as rehearsal, mental imagery, elaboration,

mnemonics or organization strategies according to Schunk (2012).

Results

Table 1 presents the memory strategies teachers use to teach their lessons. Out of the 238

examples of memory strategies used, 111 (46.64%) were rehearsal, 54 (22.69%) were mental

imagery, 46 (19.33%) were elaboration, 17 (7.14%) were mnemonic, and 10 (4.2%) were

organization.

Table 1

The Number and Percentage of Memory Strategies Used By Teachers

Memory Strategies Number of Examples Percentage of Examples

Rehearsal 111 46.64%
Mental Imagery 54 22.69%
Elaboration 46 19.33%
mnemonic 17 7.14%
organization 10 4.2%
Total 238 100%
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Representative examples and activities of these memory strategies explain how teachers

use these strategies in their classrooms. For example, teachers use drill and practice, and a variety

of games to help students rehearse what they have learned (see Table 2). One teacher wrote, “We

created flashcards to practice memorizing common conversions that were the building blocks for

more complex conversion.” Rehearsal was used widely from first to fifth grade no matter how

much teach experience the teachers had.

Table 2

The Examples and Activities of the Memory Strategy of Rehearsal Used by Teachers

Memory Examples Activities

Strategies
Rehearsal Drill 1. Tracing letters.
2. Unscrambling a sentence.
3. Repeating the letter sound.
4. Reciting the specific rule and formula.
5. Listening to a script and reciting it.
Practice 1. Using flashcards.
2. Completing worksheets.
3. Doing homework.
4. Reviewing at regular intervals.
5. Performing the movements,
6. Giving self-test.
7. Asking peers questions,
8. Looking for the concepts in daily life,
9. Solving real world situations.
Games 1. Jeopardy! for common conversions.
2. Go-fish for letter cards and corresponding pictures.
3. Bingo for single and two-digit multiplication problems.
4. Tic-Tac-Toe for 3 levels of multiplication.
5. Multiplication Wheel for multiplication.
6. Velcro cards for matching element’s name, symbol,
atomic number, and numbers of neutrons, protons and
electrons.
7. Computer games for multiplication facts, identification of
A.M. & P. M., review of the periodic table, and
classification of living organisms and cell types.
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To generate mental imagery, teachers use realia and visual aids, or engage students in

mental math or visualization (see Table 3). One teacher wrote, “As I described unit to unit

conversion, students imagined what this looked like in both units.” Mental imagery was used

widely in different elementary grade levels by teachers with less than five years of teaching

experiences.

Table 3

The Examples and Activities of the Memory Strategy of Mental Imagery Used by Teachers

Memory Examples Activities

Strategies
Mental Mental math 1. Using base ten notations
imagery 2. Adding up the number of dots.
Realia 1. A circuit board.
2. A “D”cell battery.
3. Two or three wires.
4. Different types of conductors and insulators.
5. A light bulb.
6. A motor.
7. A small demonstration clock.
Visual aids. 1. Flashcards with pictures.
2. Vocabulary cards with pictures and letters.
3. Pictures on bulletin boards, whiteboard, or posters.
4. Illustrations within story books.
5. Video or Smartboard demonstrations.
6. Songs with physical motion,
7. Scripts with physical motion but without voice.
Visualization. 1. The equal sign of an algebraic expression as a scale
holding the same weight at both sides.
2. A compass rose as a favorite uncut pie with 360 small
cuts. .

Not only can teachers elaborate the information by using analogy and making meaningful

connections to real life, they may also ask students to generate their own personalized examples,

complete their own projects, and teach their peers (see Table 4). One teacher wrote, “I used what
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the kids already knew and built on it.” Elaboration was used mainly by fourth and fifth-grade

teachers no matter how much teaching experience they had.

Table 4

The Examples and Activities of the Memory Strategy of Elaboration Used by Teachers

Memory Examples Activities

Strategies
Elaboration Analogy 1. Multiplication is analogous to repeated addition.
2. Division is analogous to repeated subtraction.
3. Mowing the yard is analogous to area because you mow
the whole yard,
4. Setting up a fence is analogous to its parameter because
you go around the edges.
Meaningfulness 1. Calculating area when one wants to buy carpet for houses,
order tiles for a kitchen, or build a house.
2. The letter A comes before the letter P in the alphabet, so
A.M. comes before P.M. just as morning comes before
night.
3. Since “tablespoon” and “teaspoon” both start with the
letter T, and T rhymes with “three”, remember that there
are 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon.
Peer teaching 1. After finishing their work, students can help others
determine examples and non-examples, identify the type
of speech in sentences, and apply the parts of speech to
compose sentences.
2. Working together to discuss the question, figure out the
answer, and share the strategies of how to get the answers.
3. After summarizing their sections, each student teaches
that section to the class and other students may ask
questions about that section.
Personalized 1. Connecting a script to an emotion students identify with
examples and relating it to a previous event from their life.
2. Using the new words to write personalized sentences
relevant to their life and making meaningful connections
to the words.
3. Deriving the formulas themselves.
4. Writing a song, rap, or poem about a state and its capital.
5. Creating a sentence for each common interjection.
6. Writing down definitions, making observations, drawing
pictures, making hypotheses and predictions, discussing
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the steps and strategies, and explaining the successes and

failures of one’s project.
7. Creating flashcards with the material and other visuals.
8. Rewriting and explaining the concepts in one’s own
words.
Projects 1. Creating a poster of a topic and presenting the poster to
the class.
2. Choosing an experiment for science fair based on what
students have learned and presenting their results to the
whole class.
3. Constructing 3-D prisms with grid paper and discovering
the standard algorithm for finding volume.
4. Creating one test question for teachers to put into a test.
5. Making a cake to show the type and parts of cells.

Acronyms, phrases, and songs are mnemonics teachers use in different subjects (see Table

5). One teacher wrote, “Tablespoon and teaspoon both start with the letter T, T rhymes with 3, so

there are 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon.” Mnemonics were used mainly by fourth and fifth-grade

teachers with less than five years of teaching experiences.

Table 5

The Examples and Activities of the Memory Strategy of Mnemonics Used by Teachers

Memory Examples Activities

Strategies
Mnemonics Acronyms 1. Using “KFC” as a cue for remembering the fraction
operation: keep, flip, and change.
2. Using “FANBOYS” as a cue for remembering
conjunctions: for, an, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
3. Using “SOH CAH TOA” as a cue for remembering
geometry equation: Sine = opposite/hypotenuse, cosine =
adjacent/hypotenuse, tangent = opposite/adjacent.
Phrases 1. Using “King Henry doesn’t make Disney channel music”
as a cue for remembering the conversion of measurements
in the metric system: kilo, hecto, deka, meter, deci, centi,
milli.
2. Using “Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally” to remember
the order of operations in math: parenthesis, exponents,
multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction.
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3. Using “Never eat soggy waffles” to remember cardinal

directions: north, east, south, and west.
Songs 1. Using songs on perimeter and area, states and capitals,
living organisms classifications, cell types and their parts,
and the periodic table and its elements.,

Teachers also use anchor charts, concept maps, check sheets, and bookmarks, or engage in

chunking to organize the information for students to remember (see Table 6). One teacher wrote,

“We made a web of words that often gave clues as to whether a person should add or deduct.”

Organization was used mainly in fourth and fifth grades by teachers with less than five years of

teaching experiences.

Table 6

The Examples and Activities of the Memory Strategy of Organization Used by Teachers

Memory Examples Activities

Strategies
Organization Anchor chart 1. Writing the similarity and difference between insulators
and conductors in two columns.
Bookmark 1. Figuring out an unknown word in a variety of ways, such
as sounding out words, breaking words apart, and looking
for context clues and text features.
Check sheet 1. Identifying main ideas and supporting details, such as
reading the entire passage first, deciding whether the
passage is fiction or non-fiction, listing the important
parts of the passage, looking for the sentence telling the
main idea, and summarizing the passage with the main
idea and supporting details.
Concept map 1. Writing key words to identify the operation of addition
(sum, total, more, sum) and subtraction (reduce, decrease,
less than, difference) in boxes and connecting them to the
respective operation.
Chunking 1. Parts of speech as four smaller units: nouns, verbs,
connections, and interjections.
2. Adjectives, nouns, and pronouns as a descriptive unit.
3. Adverbs and verbs as a motion unit.
4. Prepositions and conjunctions as a connecting-word unit.
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General Discussion

The current study examines the types of memory strategies teachers use to present their

lessons. Rehearsal and mental imagery were used widely by first to fifth- grade teachers whereas

elaboration, mnemonics and organization were used mainly by fourth and fifth-grade teachers.

Rehearsal and elaboration were used by teachers regardless of their teaching experiences whereas

mental imagery, mnemonics and organization were used by teachers with less than five years of

teaching experiences.

Rehearsal is found to be the most frequently used strategy, followed by mental imagery,

elaboration, mnemonics, and organization. Previous study also found that rehearsal is the memory

strategy taught most often by teachers to their students (Moely et al., 1992). The high percentage

of teachers using rehearsal in the classroom (46.64%) indicates that teachers frequently use drill

and practice, as well as games, to repeat foundational information for students to remember. As

reviewed, rehearsal works well in remembering a list of items, arithmetic facts, spelling words,

and scripts but is less effective for remembering more complex and meaningful information

and/or information over the long term (Santrock, 2011; Woolfolk, 2013). From the examples

given by teachers, rehearsal is used appropriately for students to remember foundational matter

that is continuously revisited and built upon. In fact, rehearsal is the strategy to encode

information to working memory where information is stored long enough to be processed to

complete a task.

When the information is deemed important, other memory strategies are needed to move it

to long-term memory. Memory strategies which move information from working memory to

long-term memory are elaboration, mental imagery, mnemonics and organization. However, the
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percentage of teachers using rehearsal (46.64%) to encode information in working memory is

much higher than the percentage of teachers using any of those strategies which move

information to long-term memory. To move information to long-term memory, teachers should

adopt these strategies more often and more widely. In planning lessons individually or as a team,

these memory strategies can be incorporated into instructional activities of a variety of topics.

The memory strategies discussed in the current study may benefit other teachers or

educators who would like to apply memory strategies in their own educational settings. With

exposure to how other teachers use memory strategies, teachers or educators can equip themselves

with a number of strategies before developing their own versions. However, caution has to be

taken when reading these strategies because they are ascertained from teachers’ self-reported

responses to an open-ended question. In the real classroom, teachers who participated in this

study may not use these memory strategies or may not implement these strategies in the ways

they describe. Nevertheless, exposure to a teacher who teaches memory strategies would lead

students toward more effective learning (Moely, et al., 1992). Further studies might compare

students’ academic performance under teachers who use more memory strategies and those who

use fewer memory strategies in presenting the lessons, or examine memory strategies by content

matter and grade level.

Conclusions

Memory strategies are critical in promoting learning at schools. The types of memory

strategies teachers use to present their lessons determine how students would remember the

information. Rehearsal is helpful in remembering foundational information in working memory,

whereas elaboration, mental imagery, mnemonics and organization are helpful in moving
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information from working memory to long-term memory. Therefore, teachers are encouraged to

learn from other teachers how to incorporate these memory strategies in presenting lessons to

their students.
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