Smartphones have a lot of advantages and they can make our lives easier…. However, as with most things, it can lead to problems in excess. Excessive smartphone use is linked to depression, anxiety, and poor sleep quality (1)…
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Digest #160: Neurodiversity Celebration Week
This week, March 21-27, 2022, is Neurodiversity Celebration Week. Siena Castellon founded Neurodiversity Celebration in 2018. In Siena’s words, the week was founded because “I wanted to change the way learning differences are perceived. As a teenager who is autistic and has ADHD, dyslexia, and dyspraxia …
To Revise Your First Answer On A Multiple-Choice Test, Or Not, That Is The Question
Imagine you are taking a multiple-choice test with a range of different questions on it. You go from one question to the next and answer them as well as possible. As you answer each question, you may feel more or less confident about whether you answered a question correctly. Now, before submitting your final answers you have two options…
GUEST POST: The Boxing Technique: Operationalizing Retrieval Practice to Improve Learning
Several studies of undergraduate and graduate students have demonstrated that most tend to gravitate towards using ineffective and passive learning strategies to include re-reading and recopying notes, reading, highlighting and then re-reading the text, re-listening or re-watching lectures and engaging in cramming or blocking of study when they study…
Digest #158: Mental Health and Wellbeing in Education
In education many students and staff report experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges at some point in their studies or their work - often for prolonged periods. The pandemic has contributed to the burden on mental health many students and teachers were already facing…
Digest #157: Exam Preparation Tips
Our entire website is dedicated to improving study skills in students and supporting their learning. In today’s digest, we would like to present five resources for exam preparation. Exams are coming up in most educational settings and they come in a variety of formats…