Today we bring you a fun, light-hearted post! We interviewed 3rd grader KTJ about her views on quizzing. For context, note that KTJ goes to a good public school in the Northeast United States, and has many relatives who either work in education ...
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Concept Map: What Does Retrieval Practice Do?
Over the past week, we have been working with Oliver Caviglioli to develop a concept map that depicts how we conceptualize retrieval practice. There are a lot of things we as researchers take for granted about this cognitive process, and Oliver thought it would ...
Teaching APA Style: An APA Template Paper
Teaching students how to write in APA style? Learning to write in APA format for a class or a research project? We now have templates for one-experiment papers and multiple-experiment papers! Download our template papers here ...
Be Your Own Teacher: How To Study Verb Conjugations
Many languages require the conjugation of verbs if they follow a pronoun. An effective way to study and learn these different conjugations is to use two stacks of flashcards simultaneously. One stack will consist of verbs, and the other stack will be the pronouns. ...
How to Dance Like a Cognitive Psychologist
I woke up in the middle of the night and checked Twitter (a terrible habit). Blurry-eyed, I scrolled until a post by David Weston on cognitive psychology applied to dance. Wow! Now I was wide awake.
I’ve been a cognitive psychologist for 10 years, ...
How I Went From High-school Slacker to Passionate College Student
Every student follows their own educational path. Mine has led me to somewhere I never thought I could reach, outside of my comfort zone. I went through public school believing senior year would be the end of my education. ...