It should seem obvious, and it goes with what we know about the brain — and it’s something I often tell my students who whine about schoolwork being challenging: When your experience is more vivid, you are more likely to remember it. This is one reason I make my students draw a picture and use at least two colors for each vocabulary word.
Now I need to see about re-formatting my handouts — currently with the most readable fonts possible — to use ones that are more difficult to decipher: Do funky fonts actually help you remember? | The Hot Word