Highlighting And the Effects of The Color of The Highlighter on Retention: A Review of Literature

Abstract

This objective of this study is about how “highlighting and the colour of the highlighters” effects on retention. The use of highlighting is being used by many students and different text is being used by different colours. It is essential to know does highlighting actually helps, does the colour actually helps to remember better and are these techniques actually helpful during examination for the children. Highlighting the textbooks and notes is very subjective and a choice of an Individual. However, Highlighting did result in a better memory, especially during a test it was recollected better as it was visualised in that way. Colour also plays an important role, as they could recollect it better, adding colourful pictures and text in textbook has a great impact on remembering. This study deals with how highlighting helps and colour impacts on the retention.