How do medical students learn conceptual knowledge? High-, moderate- and low-utility learning techniques and perceived learning difficulties

Table 2 The students’ level of agreement on the use of common learning techniques according to Dunlosky et al. [18], n = 730

Learning technique	Usage (in %)	Usage according to utility in (%)
Summarization	52	Low-utility learning techniques: 60
Highlighting/Underlining	74
Keyword Mnemonic	47
Imagery for Text	54
Rereading	71
Elaborative Interrogation	60	Moderate-utility learning techniques: 53
Self-explanation	74
Interleaved Practice	25
Practice Testing	76	High-utility learning techniques: 62
Distributed Practice	47	High-utility learning techniques: 62

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