Improving Learning: Comprehension and Retention for Students

This report delves into the critical concepts of comprehension and retention, emphasizing their pivotal role in enhancing the quality of learning and boosting academic achievement. It explores how strong comprehension and retention skills are essential for students to excel academically and professionally. The report outlines the significance of reading comprehension, its impact on critical thinking, and its contribution to long-term knowledge retention. Furthermore, it evaluates common obstacles that hinder comprehension and retention, such as lack of effective strategies, attention deficits, and ineffective memorization techniques. The report suggests practical approaches to overcome these challenges, including explicit teaching methods, focused attention, and the development of personalized learning techniques. The report concludes by underscoring the importance of cultivating strong comprehension and retention habits for sustained academic and career success. The provided references include books and journals discussing related topics.

About the concept of
comprehension and
retention

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Role of building comprehension and retention for improving quality of learning and increase
academic achievement of students.........................................................................................3
Evaluate the obstacles pertaining to building comprehension and retention.........................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Reading comprehension means what an individual understand as reading the material or
content in present moment. On other hand retention might be concerned with the remembered by
an individual later on. Firstly to read the material and later on recognize or remember it for long
time plays very much crucial role in the life of individual respective activities develops the
qualities of scholar and helps in gaining high growth in their career positively. Respective report
is based on role and significance of developing comprehension and retention in order to improve
the academic achievements of a student. Further it elaborates about obstacles faced while
building comprehension and retention.
MAIN BODY
Role of building comprehension and retention for improving quality of learning and increase
academic achievement of students.
for a student reading a lot is very much important to improve the quality of learning but it
is very crucial for them to retain the learning aspects for the long time in mind that are part of
their academic achievements for gaining fruitful outcomes (Ausubel, 2012.) . Reading skills
spans a spectrum from the lower order skills of remembrance and understand that high order
skills for analyzing and evaluation of knowledge and learning in proper manner. respective skills
is very much necessary for an individual to become a reader and critical thinker otherwise an

individual do not able to comprehend a text then how apply the information in their research and
profession for gaining desirable outcomes in positive manner. to improve quality of learning and
increase academic achievement of students it is very much crucial to build a strong foundation in
reading retention and comprehension to remain always competitive in market.
Here are the some crucial kind of role of comprehension and retention in the life of an student to
remain always pioneer in their field that are as follows:
Having excellent reading comprehension skill is very much crucial for an individual as it
enhances the enjoyment and effectiveness of reading and helps not only on the academic
background but also in professionally and personal life. It is very much significant for an
individual to read a lot with concentration to remember it for the long time so that it enhances the
learning and academic achievements in positive manner (Baleghizadeh, 2012.)
. by develop the skills of comprehension and retention being able to understand the meaning
behind the text helps to children develop their intellectual socially and professionally on various
grounds in order to gain potential outcomes. With the help of enthusiasm with the objective of
gaining some crucial outcomes helps to memorise the reading content for long time helps in
gaining higher grades in exams and enhance the capabilities of mind that are one of crucial factor
in the life of an individual. By using both the skills an individual can be able to understand or
acknowledge the question asked by the teacher in their classroom that not only improves the
image and motivation level of individual to read a lot in right direction for gaining pioneer
advantage of their own field in order to remain competitive in the marketplace. by using such
skills an individual can be able to develop the capabilities to practically implement their
comprehend knowledge in order to apply in outer world (Ben-Yehudah and Eshet-Alkalai,
2018.) Such as with help of reading comprehension that helps to develop skills of understand and
retention enables to keep in mind for long time helps to comprehend subjects such as science,
maths and history as it is very crucial to command over the subject matter in order to remember
them for long duration that not only saves time and cost but also helps to develop quality of
scholar in an individual positively. Respective activities and skills directly rely on the interest
area of a person as when s/he reads a lot but not able to remember and apply in outer world that
creates dissatisfaction and hinders the self interest to comprehend to improve the quality of
learning and gain higher grades in academics. So it is very much crucial for a student to give one
of their best efforts in comprehension as it is foundation stone of their success of life and career

in positive manner (Hung and Chen, 2018.) while a student memorize the material which
comprehend then individual can be able to respond in very quick manner as not puzzled to give
excellent answers as it enhance their learning capabilities. Reading comprehension is the
foundation stone of other skills too such as it enhances the communication, writing, debating and
many more develop simultaneously that are very much essential in competitive world to present
oneself in front of others by using any mode such as verbally, in written form or by debating so
that desirable results should be incurred in positive manner. so it can be said that reading
comprehension and its retention for long time is very significant in the life of not only for
student but also for every age people to remain competitive in market.
Evaluate the obstacles pertaining to building comprehension and retention.
Reading comprehension and retention not an easy task but there are lot of efforts required
in order to gain fruitful outcomes in order to gain career growth in positive manner. here are the
some significant obstacles to evaluate the gaps in performing well that are as follows:
The first and foremost difficulties with reading comprehension as students lack the strategies and
tactics to actively engage oneself with text by which they can develop level of understanding.
Therefore, children find difficulties to understand and to reach at conclusion about what are they
reading and not memorize for long time in their mind for long time that brings dissatisfaction
from their results. it has been evaluated that by using explicit teaching a student can improve the
reading comprehension and save the learning for long duration in own mind in order to gain
fruitful outcomes.
The another area of improvement for gaining effective kind of results while comprehend
and retain it for long time (Kowalski and Taylor, 2017.). As it is the very common obstacle in
front of students as they are not able to paying attention on task in which they are involved.
Without attention retention of learning is impossible as attention is first and foremost step to
build strong memory base. Sometimes an individual requires extra efforts to concentrate oneself.
It is researched that when an individual read a story or any area of their key interest it remain for
long last so it can be said that to retain knowledge for long time it is very much crucial to
comprehend with the objective and by not involving in any other activities.
The another major obstacle in which students involved oneself while they are involved in
comprehend and retain information in their mind that as memorization is not a pie eating contest
but required techniques and extra efforts to enhance capabilities of memory in proper manner. so

it is very much essential to not involve oneself in more than one activity and put one of best
efforts in achieving desirable goals and objectives in proper manner to gain success in career
(Lopez and et.al ., 2017.)
. The another area of improvement or can said obstacle faced by a student that they not possess
any kind of actual technique to bring work in to practice for gaining fruitful outcomes in order to
remain competitive in environment. For gaining fruitful outcomes from comprehension and
retention it is very essential to develop own technique to restore a lot by build mind map or
memory place without wasting time in other ridiculous activities that hinders self interest in
gaining fruitful outcomes in positive manner (Mains and et.al ., 2015)
.so it has been very much important to work on small things that draws crucial results in life of
an individual for gaining potential outcomes by using techniques that enhance abilities.
From the above information it has been evaluated that to memorize the reading facts and
figures it is very much crucial to develop own learning patterns that provide one of best
outcomes to remain competitive in market place.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been evaluated that comprehension and retention plays very
much crucial role in the life of individual. Respective skills enables in gaining career growth and
improve the learning that are very much important in life of a student. it enables to gain pioneer
advantage as it bring growth by finding out opportunities around us in positive manner. to attain
such kinds of results it is very crucial to put one of best efforts by using techniques and tools by
concentrating mind that are key areas to overcome from obstacles. So it is very much crucial to
work on habits regarding reading and gaining potential outcomes in positive manner.

REFERENCES
Books and journals:
Ausubel, D.P., 2012. The acquisition and retention of knowledge: A cognitive view. Springer
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Baleghizadeh, S., 2012. The effect of etymology elaboration on EFL learners’ comprehension
and retention of idioms. 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature®. 18(1).
Ben-Yehudah, G. and Eshet-Alkalai, Y., 2018. The contribution of text-highlighting to
comprehension: A comparison of print and digital reading. Journal of Educational
Multimedia and Hypermedia. 27(2). pp.153-178.
Hung, I.C. and Chen, N.S., 2018. Embodied interactive video lectures for improving learning
comprehension and retention. Computers & Education. 117. pp.116-131.
Kowalski, P. and Taylor, A.K., 2017. Reducing students’ misconceptions with refutational
teaching: For long-term retention, comprehension matters. Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning in Psychology. 3(2). p.90.
Lopez and et.al ., 2017. From anatomical knowledge to clinical comprehension: A peer-oriented
learning session to help medical students make the leap. Medical Science Educator.
27(2). pp.177-181.
Mains and et.al ., 2015. Do questions help? The impact of audience response systems on medical
student learning: a randomised controlled trial. Postgraduate medical journal.
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McKeown, M.G. and Curtis, M.E., 2014. The nature of vocabulary acquisition. Psychology
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Wilson, D., 2012. Training the mind's eye:“brain movies” support comprehension and recall. The
Reading Teacher. 66(3). pp.189-194.
Young, J., 2014. A study of print and computer-based reading to measure and compare rates of
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