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Mar 26

Mar 26 Weekly Digest #102: Leading women in STEM fields

For Parents, For Researchers, For Students, For Teachers, Guest Posts, Digests

According to the study, “Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation”, women are vastly underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs in the US. The report further states that women hold less than 25 % of STEM jobs.

Mar 18

Mar 18 Weekly Digest #101: Preparing for Higher Education

Learning Scientists

For Parents, For Students, Digests

We know that the transition as students move through their education can be difficult for students (and their parents). Choosing where to go to apply to college/university, how to apply, and how to fund the higher education can be one of the more difficult aspects ...

Mar 16

Mar 16 The Availability Heuristic

Yana Weinstein

For Teachers, Learning Scientists Posts, For Students

Heuristics are mental shortcuts that allow you navigate the world quickly and efficiently. Many heuristics are very useful, because they allow you to understand a situation and respond to it without processing every piece of information in detail.

Mar 8

Mar 8 Different Research Methods: Strengths and Weaknesses

Megan Sumeracki

For Teachers, For Parents, Learning Scientists Posts, For Students

There are a lot of different methods of conducting research, and each comes with its own set of strengths and weaknesses. While most researchers are exposed to a variety of methodologies throughout graduate training, we tend to become engrossed with ...

Mar 1

Mar 1 Who Should Create Study Plans?

Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel

Learning Scientists Posts, For Teachers, For Students, For Researchers

One aspect that seems important when it comes to self-regulated learning is the ability to plan one’s own learning and, for instance, to decide what material to study next, how long to study the material for, and how to study the material. Being allowed to be in charge of such planning promises to have positive effects on motivation...

Feb 16

Feb 16 Memorizing versus Understanding

Yana Weinstein

Learning Scientists Posts, For Teachers, For Students, For Researchers, For Parents

This post continues a series of posts on the value of memory. I wrote a few months ago about how memory is used for everything we do, and recently published a post-humus guest blog by Ralph A. Raimi in defense of memorization.