All in For Students
To researchers and educators in the fields of cognitive and educational psychology, it’s common knowledge that self-testing, distributed practice, and elaborative interrogation are some of the most useful study strategies insofar as they better promote retention of information…
These days we are all extremely busy! So, we’ll keep it brief. Check out these resources to help you manage your workflow and stay productive. Since we know you’re busy, we’ll keep the descriptions to a minimum today and let the descriptive titles speak for themselves!
Despite its importance to students and teachers alike, engagement is a tricky concept to define… how can you tell if someone is engaged in learning? And do interest and attention lead to better learning?
Here at The Learning Scientists we talk a lot about how to improve learning, particularly in schools. But what happens after graduation? How do you take the first steps from school to career? In this digest we’ve gathered several resources to help students think about future careers in teaching, psychology, and how to gain relevant work experience.
One of the talks introduced me to an interesting research question that is potentially applicable to authentic studying situations for students: When studying a text, should students pretend to explain the main ideas to someone, engage in retrieval practice, or does it not make a difference?
One research line that is highlighted at the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) conference is self-regulated learning in students and in what ways teachers could help foster self-regulated learning in students. There are many different ways on how research is approaching this issue…
