Every so often articles like this pop up claiming that critical thinking is a soft skill and is surely not being taught in schools, despite its importance in the workplace and everyday life.
Increasing Academic Performance Through Mark Withholding
I have recently published a paper (with co-author Paul Gardner) on the effects of temporary mark withholding on academic performance and feedback views in university students (1). Temporary mark withholding is a feedback strategy whereby on assignments students are provided with the feedback first without their marks…
Guest Post: Why Every Teacher Should Be a Philosophy Teacher
In a perfect world, the curriculum we teach our students just clicks, there’s that ‘lightbulb’ moment where they not only understand the objective but they’ve applied it to other subjects as well. This is the interdisciplinary dream that we strive for, but if we want this to be a norm, teachers may need to add one more title to their ever growing list of professions: philosopher.
SQ3R or Read, Recite, Review
We have occasionally received questions from educators about the SQ3R method and so I did some digging this week into the theoretical benefits of this method and the evidence to support its use.
Learning Scientists' Greatest Hits
In celebration of our 500th post (wow!) and 5 years as the Learning Scientists, we decided to reminisce on some of our blog highlights…
Digest #150: How To Read An Academic Paper
In the past few weeks, my students (Carolina here) have repeatedly asked for resources on how to best read scientific papers. When you are given academic articles to read, you may be inclined to read them from beginning to end. However,…