ALT Did You Know? Ask, and you shall receive. Students who studied a lesson and then wrote their own questions outperformed students who simply restudied the material by 33 percent on a follow-on test. Other research shows that students learn better when they are “trained to generate cognitively challenging questions.” Work with students to identify crucial themes or insights, and model how to write more complex, open-ended questions that start with “explain,” “why,” or “how.” Sources: Bugg & McDaniel, 2012; Ebersbach, Feierabend, & Nazari, 2020; Levin & Arnold, 2008