All in Learning Scientists Posts
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 ...
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...
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) classes have been the strong focus of discovery ( or constructivist, problem-based, active-learning) methods of instruction, certainly with some success...
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.
For decades, and even centuries, cognitive psychologists have been studying the best ways to learn. For those who are frequent readers of our blog, I promise I won’t go on and on about the strategies and their evidence base… I know you’ve heard this all before. (But, for newer ...
“What is one of the most difficult things to teach your students?” When you ask teachers in different sectors, one answer that will probably get a lot of hits and lead to agreeing nods is “Transfer!” The ability to apply learned principles and knowledge to solve novel problems or tackle new, unfamiliar tasks.
