Today I’m reviewing a study that directly compared two effective learning strategies (retrieval practice and worked examples) on their usefulness for generalizing knowledge (transfer).
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How Do Secondary Students Study, and Are Their Choices Related to Their Beliefs in Achievement?
Lately, my preschool-aged daughter has been listening to one of her Tonies* that she calls “Positive Hippo”. *For the uninitiated, a Toniebox is a little speaker. They work with special figurines, called Tonies. The kids put a Tonie on the box and it starts playing …
Self-Regulating Motivation and Emotion During Learning
Self-regulated learning is a cyclical process of forethought, performance, and self-reflection that allows a learner to regulate their learning (1). While a number of cognitive processes, particularly metacognitive processes, are involved in self-regulated learning, a learner’s ability to assess and regulate their motivational and emotional state can heavily influence their self-regulation of their learning.
A Framework for Student Performance
Today I want to share with you a framework that I use to talk to students about their exam performance. This framework can be applied to any situation in which a person is being assessed on the spot.
"Blips" of Knowledge Reduce Accuracy and Increase Confidence
What do you do when you get a random new physiological symptom? The study I’m reviewing today looks specifically at how short pieces of information impact our confidence in our knowledge and our accuracy…
Retrieval Practice and Stress (repost)
I recently remembered this post about retrieval practice and stress. I was talking to one of my students about retrieval practice and stress, and went back to the blog to help me remember some aspects of the research. Upon seeing the …