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Nov 17

Nov 17 In Defense of Memory

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

I’m very passionate about memory. I’ve dedicated most of my adult life so far to examining how our human memory works. But why? Well, think about your life. Think about how you define yourself, who you are. Maybe you see yourself as a hard worker.

Nov 15

Nov 15 GUEST POST: Language about ability, mindset, and motivation and performance

Learning Scientists

Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Parents

It is commonly known that telling a child she is stupid is harmful. But what about telling her she is smart? Although the latter case is unlikely to be as bad as the former, there is research to suggest that even praising a child’s intelligence (as well as other abilities) may have negative effects,

Nov 12

Nov 12 Weekly Digest #85: Adjunct Questions

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, Digests

We recently featured a blog post on recent research showing that prequestions can be useful for learning from video lectures. However, research on adjunct questions is not new. Much of this research builds on work that was pioneered by Rothkopf in the ...

Nov 9

Nov 9 Does Piano Learning Benefit From Spaced Practice?

Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel

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

Today, I thought it would be nice to revisit the topic of music, but in a different way: A recent study (1) investigated whether learning to play the piano benefits from spaced practice and, to my surprise, they found this not to be the case...

Nov 8

Nov 8 GUEST POST: The Dark Side of Interleaving

Learning Scientists

Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Researchers

In 2013, a 7-study paper on retrieval practice made a big splash. In 5 of the 7 experiments, students first learned pairs of faces and names on the computer, and were then asked either to restudy each pair,

Nov 5

Nov 5 Weekly Digest #84: Deliberate Practice

Learning Scientists

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

Today, one of our co-founders (Yana) is giving a keynote at a conference with Anders Ericsson, the leading expert on expertise (yes, you read that right). In honor of this, for today's digest we have put together a set of resources on deliberate practice ...