In a recent paper, Danzglock, Berger, and Hänze (1) investigated the effects of combining collaborative learning with interleaved practice using complex material in physics in 376 secondary school students. Interleaved practice is when tasks or concepts are...
Transfer of learning, the process by which people can recognize and apply previously learned information to different situations, is one of the primary goals of education.
For today’s blog post, I interviewed Dr Rob Nash who together with Prof Naomi Winstone and Dr Kieran Balloo created the website Feedback emPower Tools. Feedback emPower Tools sets out to help learners engage and process feedback they receive...
This article explores a reflective practice tradition that has evolved in English language teacher education. We begin by looking at Practice-Based Teacher Education (PBTE), and then show how a structured reflection process—DIGPA—can connect these practices…
Today I’m reviewing a study that recently came out looking at how students choose to use spacing in their own study and how it relates to their performance…
February 5, 2026 marks the 10 year anniversary of the Learning Scientists Blog. In late January, 2016, Jude Weinstein (who went by Yana at that time) and I started what we thought would be a fun little project to try to help students learn more. We started …
