Rehearsal in educational psychology refers to the "cognitive process in which information is repeated over and over as a possible way of learning and remembering it".
[citation needed] A person can do this by saying aloud or thinking of material repeatably until it becomes a part of the working memory.
Maintenance rehearsal is viewed in educational psychology as an ineffective way of getting information to the long-term memory.
A strategy such as engaging the brain of the learners in an elaboration exercise will help the memories be more storable and retrievable in the future.
Elaboration strategies include paraphrasing or summarizing the material to be learned, creating analogies, generative note-taking (where the student actually reorganizes and connects ideas in their notes in contrast to passive, linear note-taking), explaining the ideas in the material to be learned to someone else, and question asking and answering.