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| PROVEN
RESULTS OF THE ACCELERATED LEARNING METHOD |
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In
1993, Bridley Moor High School, in Redditch, England,
tested the effectiveness of accelerated learning methods
for studying a modern language.
One
group of students’ German study included ten weeks
of accelerated learning methods, and their examination
results were compared with others studying at the same
level by conventional methods. On 16 July 1993, BBC
Television broadcast the results. |
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Using
new methods |
Using
normal methods |
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exam mark or better |
65% |
11% |
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exam mark or better |
38% |
3% |
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| Thus,
using accelerated learning methods, more than ten times
as many students achieved a 90% exam mark. |
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| Lynn
Dhority, Boston Professor of Education, specialises
in teaching second languages by many of the creative learning
methods used in the Accelerated Learning programmes. In one
well-researched study: |
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groups of American soldiers studied basic German for 12 weeks
using standard educational methods (60 days, 360 hours). |
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group studied the same subject, using 'accelerated learning'
techniques, for 18 days (108 hours). |
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29% of the 'standard groups' reached the required level of understanding
in 360 hours. |
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But
64% of the 'accelerated learning' group achieved the same
ability to read German in 108 hours; and 73% reached the required
level of understanding spoken German. |
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| Statistically,
that is a 661% better learning rate: more than twice the results
in one-third the time. |
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These results are quoted from 'The
Learning Revolution' by Gordon Dryden and Dr Jeannette Vos,
published by Accelerated Learning Systems Ltd 1994.
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