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Weekly Digest #10: How to Grade Writing Assignments
May 15

May 15 Weekly Digest #10: How to Grade Writing Assignments

Learning Scientists
For Teachers, Digests

As the spring semester wraps up, the grading tends to pile up. As college professors, we’ve noticed that we spend a lot of time grading papers, and we worry about whether the time we put into providing feedback really helps our students learn. We discussed ...

Be Your Own Teacher: How To Study With Pictures
May 12

May 12 Be Your Own Teacher: How To Study With Pictures

Learning Scientists
For Teachers, For Students, Guest Posts

Hey! Let's play a little game. Read the two sentences below:

A.   Lar gibbons have white fur around the perimeter of their faces.

B.    Mandrills have blue, red and yellow coloring on their faces. ...

GUEST POST: Retrieval Strength Vs. Storage Strength
May 10

May 10 GUEST POST: Retrieval Strength Vs. Storage Strength

Learning Scientists
Guest Posts, For Researchers
“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
May 8

May 8 Weekly Digest #9: How to Talk About Learning Styles

Learning Scientists
For Teachers, For Researchers, Digests

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
May 5

May 5 The Many Benefits of Retrieval Practice

Megan Sumeracki
For Teachers, Learning Scientists Posts

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
May 3

May 3 GUEST POST: Evidence For the Frontline -- Teachers and Researchers Working Together

Learning Scientists
For Researchers, For Teachers, Guest Posts

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 ...

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