What is a good way to put items into LONG TERM MEMORY? Close the book, recall, write down what you remember.

one of the advantages of taking courses in a graduate degree program is the access and push i get from other students.  One of my colleagues, Kathleen, pointed me toward this article by David Glenn in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Close the book, recall,  write it down [again]
Here is a summary

The action of trying to remember what we just read forces us to review the item, rather than just reviewing or reading our notes from the article.  

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Another article by David Glenn, called You Will Be Tested on This, has the following interesting paragraph:

So the information that we can apply in Relational Education, where students are independent, is to ask them to take frequent quizzes to reinforce their reading.