This past week Donna Strickland won the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on chirp pulse amplification. Dr. Strickland’s win was particularly notable because it has been 55 years since a woman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
What does massed reading and watching do to attention?
What happens when students read a text twice in a row or watch the same lecture video twice in a row? We know from research on retrieval practice and spaced practice that such “massed” repetition of information does little to enhance long-term learning.
Weekly Digest #126: Memory Researchers As Science Communicators
In today’s digest, we would like to highlight researchers who have spoken or written about how our memory works in order to inform a broader audience…
Optimising Learning Using Retrieval Practice
This piece originally appeared in the Spring 2018 issue of Impact by The Chartered College of Teaching. You can read more about Impact here. Note the formatting of references and British English spelling was retained.
Retrieval practice, or reconstructing knowledge …
GUEST POST: Making Three Years of Learning Stick or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Prepare for My Comprehensive Exam
This past May I passed my doctoral program’s comprehensive exam, becoming a doctoral candidate in counseling psychology. This was easily the most daunting academic challenge I’ve faced: A grueling, week long gauntlet of writing …
Highlighting With Reservations
After reading a summary of the research on highlighting I became an adamant anti-highlighter (1). I mean, it was worse than re-reading in some cases. Re-reading. The standard control in memory experiments.