Enhancing School Success with Mnemonic Strategies. Intervention in School and Clinic . March 1998, pp.
Memorization is an integral part to the educational experience.
It is one of the major ways which mastery is measured for specific materials. Simply stated, most states have tests which measure mastery of materials through the ability to remember information. If information can not be remembered, it is not learned and if the information is not learned, then the student is not proficient with the content area in which the information had to be learned. The strategies were simply suggested to enable the student effectively encode and retrieve information. Various techniques were discussed as viable alternatives by the authors.