New research by Dr. Unnur Guðrún Óttarsdóttir on "Experiments on the Efficacy of Drawing for Memorization among Adults and Children with Varying Written Word Memory Capacities: A Two-Way Crossover Design," has been published in the "Education Sciences" journal (29 April 2024). For those who find it challenging to remember words, drawing them has been shown to make it generally about 45 times easier to remember in the long term.
Dr. Óttarsdóttir’s research consisted of asking 134 children and 262 adults to draw and write the meaning of words, and then to recall those words after varying time periods. New results provided by the study demonstrate that children and adults who struggle to remember written words, are the ones who benefit most from drawing for memorisation. The difference is so great that children in that group were generally able to recall their drawings about 45 times more easily than the words they had written three weeks earlier.
The full paper on the research, “Experiments on the Efficacy of Drawing for Memorization among Adults and Children with Varying Written Word Memory Capacities: A Two-Way Crossover Design,” was published in Education Science and can be viewed at https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/14/5/470/pdf.
