Fundamentally, we are all learners and as professionals in education, we are expected to continue learning. This means that the same evidence-based strategies that you seek out for your students can apply to you as well.
All tagged transfer
Retrieval Practice vs. Worked Examples: When to Use Which
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).
Learner Perceived Similarity and Transfer
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.
A Framework for Training Students to Better Use Evidence-Based Learning Strategies
If you read our blog, even sporadically, you are almost certainly aware that investigations into evidence-based learning strategies have been ongoing for quite some time. In fact, as we near the end of 2025, I’m realizing that Ebbinghaus’ work on spaced practice …
Promoting Far Transfer in Medical Education: An Experiment
About 8 years ago (seriously, I can’t believe we’ve been doing this for so long…), we published a pair of blog posts on understanding both near and far transfer (Part 1; Part 2). Transfer is one of my favorite topics, in part because it is arguably the whole point of most formal education. The purpose…
Confident and Wrong: Can Students Learn from Their Mistakes?
When students find out that they’re wrong about something, how often does that sink in? How often do we learn from our mistakes? While this is a complex question, today I’m going to share a hot-off-the-presses study with you that looked at one aspect of this issue.