Comment by beej71
7 hours ago
Definitely. As instructors, we see this in action all the time. We describe stuff in writing and in lecture, discuss it with the students, and everybody seems to have good understanding. And then we have them implement it.
And that's when the shit hits the fan. :-D Only after concerted effort do the students actually gain understanding.
On another post I've already argued that Romans already had a proverb "Scribere bis legere." Translated, this means "writing is reading twice".
In practice, what this means is that you have to know how to reproduce the knowledge you've read, in your words. Only then can you be sure you've mastered what you've read. It's the reason for homework and all other stuff we have to do. Reading something five or more times simply does not suffice for our brains.