“Forgetting focuses remembering and fosters learning; remembering generates learning and causes forgetting; learning causes forgetting, begets remembering, and supports new learning.” – Bjork, 2011, p 16. ...
Weekly Digest #9: How to Talk About Learning Styles
We’ve come up with a set of criteria by which to judge articles that attempt to debunk learning styles (these are in addition to our standing criteria for judging sources that we include in the digests). In order to be maximally useful, a resource on learning styles must ...
The Many Benefits of Retrieval Practice
As you already know if you’ve been reading our blog, quizzing in the classroom helps students learn. For this reason, we have talked a fair amount about giving students frequent quizzes during class in previous blog posts. We discussed how to make quizzing fun ...
GUEST POST: Evidence For the Frontline -- Teachers and Researchers Working Together
With the Learning Scientists project, we’re trying various ways of connecting researchers with teachers – social media, blogging, and online discussion forums. When we happened upon @EvidenceFTFrontline, we were instantly impressed by their model, and ...
Weekly Digest #8: Study Tips for Students
We thought that with final exams coming up, today's digest should be devoted to some helpful tips for successful studying, reviewing, and *gasp* cramming. Overall, if you are going to study effectively and not waste any precious time, you should try these 5 strategies ...
What do all those funny words mean? A primer on English educational jargon for Americans
This guide came about because I (Yana) noticed that I was often having to translate terms from English sources to our American audience.
Here we present a set of terms commonly used in England when referring to education. ...