Despite its importance to students and teachers alike, engagement is a tricky concept to define… how can you tell if someone is engaged in learning? And do interest and attention lead to better learning?
GUEST POST: Using Colors, Images and Cartoons to Support Learning
An interesting debate has taken place in the past decade over whether learning materials should be aesthetically appealing to promote learning. This debate has made me think much more deeply about how I prepare my own handouts…
Making Tests (More) Fun Through Hints Increases Student Uptake Of Self-Testing
There is plenty of research supporting retrieval practice as a learning strategy. If left to their own devices, students report using self-testing as a way to assess how much they know, but not as a learning strategy per se (1). However, self-quizzing is a valuable learning strategy and more effective than other strategies…
Mistakes or Opportunities? Learning from Errors
Errors are a part of life. As fallible humans, we’re bound to make mistakes. In one of my classes this week, we discussed errors in terms of learning. How do we learn from our mistakes? In 2017, Janet Metcalfe wrote a thorough review of the literature on errors…
Research in Practice!
The Learning Agency has created videos of researchers and teachers working together to implement the science of learning into the classroom. These videos are brand new today!! You can check out Learning Agency Videos here.
As a researcher deeply interested in student learning, it is extremely exciting …
Digest #139: What Comes After School? Career Tips and Advise
Here at The Learning Scientists we talk a lot about how to improve learning, particularly in schools. But what happens after graduation? How do you take the first steps from school to career? In this digest we’ve gathered several resources to help students think about future careers in teaching, psychology, and how to gain relevant work experience.