Neuroscience research confirms that answering questions on a topic before you learn it increases engagement and assimilation during lessons on that topic. This supports the argumemt of the ABC Method that learners should prepare for lessons and questions should include concepts to be learned in the next week's lessons.
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We believed this increases leemsson engagement as learners would have had exposure to the concepts somewhat before the lesson. We also argued that the exended exposure to the material from preparation to lessons, to assessment and revision ensured encoding of such material into long-term memory (LTM). We thought familairity with the concepts would result in improved retrieval in assessments.