MasterMind FAQ

What is SQ3R? What are the Pimsleur principles? Who is Dr. Pimsleur?

Q. What is SQ3R? What are the Pimsleur principles? Who is Dr. Pimsleur?

A. SQ3R stands for Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review. The acronym summarizes a set of learning principles which embody the results of decades of research into the ways the mind works to acquire and retain new knowledge.

The SQ3R study method has been thoroughly student-tested and educator-approved in learning labs and in the classroom; and with the implementation of two additional powerful learning priciples, which Dr. Paul Pimsleur has called "Anticipation" and "Graduated Interval Recall", your MasterMind software includes some of the most advanced ideas, systems, and techniques for rapid and permanent learning that are available in the world today.

Dr. Paul Pimsleur devoted his life to teaching. He obtained his Ph.D. in French from Columbia University, taught French phonetics and phonemics, supervised the language laboratory at UCLA, served as a language educator at numerous other Universities, was a Fulbright lecturer in Heidelberg, Germany, a member of the AATF, and of the American Educational Research Association, among other distinctions.