Here are a few helpful resources for putting together good multiple-choice questions, organized in order from shortest (if you’re pressed for time) to longest (when you want to really explore the topic – summer reading list, anyone?) ...
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 ...
GUEST POST: Feedback -- We Still Don't Know What Works
Each summer since I began teaching has had its own idiosyncratic rhythms. A few summers ago, my routine went like this: after lunch I’d take the subway into the Bronx, get off at the library, download a bunch of articles about giving feedback, and try to ...
Weekly Digest #3: How Teachers Implement Interleaving In Their Curriculum
Since starting this outreach project, we’ve come out of our ivory towers and discovered that there are teachers out there already doing incredible implementation of cognitive principles into their curricula. This week, we have chosen to focus on implementation ...
GUEST POST: Why Is There So Much Pushback From Parents, Teachers, And Students About Testing?
Standardized tests related to the Common Core have met with a huge amount of pushback. These high-pressured tests are holding parents, teachers, and students accountable in a fashion that none of them enjoy. The tests do not do themselves a favor when they ...
Biases: Whether We Like it or Not, They're in All of Us
Yana and I started Learning Scientists about 2 months ago. This project has allowed us to start having conversations outside of our higher-ed academic setting. We are learning a ton, and are both basically obsessed with our new-found passion: blogging about science. ...