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Mar 21

Mar 21 GUEST POST: Putting the Learning Scientists’ Work into Practice (Part 2)

Last week, Naomi talked about how she implements spaced practice, interleaving, and retrieval practice in her science classroom. Here, she talks about the other three strategies – elaboration, concrete examples, and dual coding. ...

Mar 19

Mar 19 Weekly Digest #51: Math Anxiety

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Parents, Digests

As psychology professors, we witness math anxiety first-hand when students sign up to take psychological statistics, often the least favorite required course for a psychology major. Cindy has taught this course every semester of her teaching career ...

Mar 16

Mar 16 Cognitive Psychology and Education: Your Questions Answered (Volume 3)

Yana Weinstein

For Teachers, For Students, For Researchers, For Parents, Learning Scientists Posts

A few months ago, we published a piece in which we answered 5 reader questions, and then a follow-up with 5 more questions answered. Here, we continue the series with 5 further questions.

Q1: Is there any real magic to the “rule of 3”? ...

Mar 14

Mar 14 GUEST POST: Putting the Learning Scientists’ Work into Practice (Part 1)

Learning Scientists

Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Students

We recently published a guest post in which RE teacher Dawn Cox described her school’s approach to integrating cognitive science into teaching. In this follow-up 2-part post, Chemistry teacher Naomi Hennah describes how she scaffolds her students to use the strategies...

Mar 12

Mar 12 Weekly Digest #50: Our Most Popular Digests!

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Students, For Researchers, For Parents, Digests

We have now composed 50 digests! We started the digest tradition because a reader asked us whether we put together learning resources and sent them out to readers. At this time we were thinking about the best way to feature other great learning resources on our ...

Mar 9

Mar 9 How Much Guidance Should We Give Our Students?

Megan Sumeracki

For Teachers, For Researchers, Learning Scientists Posts

Researchers and education scholars have been debating about the answer to this question for decades (1, 2). Some have suggested that novice learners should receive direct instruction. In other words, to learn best they need guidance, and instructors should ...