eNquire — review your learning effectiveness#
The last step of the Memletic Process is eNquire. Enquire involves reviewing the effectiveness of your learning efforts. In this section, I first discuss creating and using a review log . I then describe four types of review:
- **Immediate review . **Receive immediate feedback and correction while learning (but not too much).
- **Lesson review . **Review the effectiveness of the previous steps when learning new material.
- **Formal review . **Use tests or examinations to measure your recall of information.
- **System review . **Review your overall use of Memletics.
The enquire step of the Memletics Process helps you improve your training and learning. It’s not just a record of what you did wrong. Making mistakes helps you learn, so don’t be afraid to make them (see the Challenges chapter for more thoughts on mistakes). Do be diligent in recognizing them and correcting them though. Using reviews is a key part of this diligence, and this in turn accelerates your overall learning.
Create your review log #
- How to create a review log, comments on what format to use, and when to use them.
- Whether to use positive or negative phrasing in your reviews
- Using assertions in your reviews, and creating a training assertions list. How to make your assertions list even more powerful by memorizing it (and tips on how)
Get immediate feedback — but not too much #
- The advantages and disadvantages of feedback during training.
- Sources of augmented feedback, including instructors and devices such as compasses, depth sounders, GPS and others.
- How continual “augmented feedback” can be dangerous, and how to overcome this danger
Do lesson reviews #
- How to formalize your reviews by writing down notes after each lesson.
- Using others (such as instructors, coaches, teachers or colleagues) to gain more feedback
- When to write your review, what to include (such as objectives and outcomes), and how to keep track of review points during lessons.
- How to use a symbol to mark items you want to review later. These may be on meeting notes, flight plans, score sheets, plans etc.
- How to analyze issues, including marking them according to their severity, and using the “five whys” technique to understand underlying or “root causes”
- How to turn issues into action points, including using the “five actions” approach.
Do formal reviews to confirm your understanding #
- How to use tests, examinations, orals and other methods to test your knowledge.
- Comments on how to view them positively, and what to do when your results don’t seem to match your expectations.
- Use of reviews after exams.
Use system reviews to improve your use of Memletics #
- How to review your use of Memletics to ensure you get the most from it.
- Examples of what to review from each of the parts.
- How to get more information