Amber is a seasoned educator with over 15 years of classroom teaching experience. Since 2018, she has integrated the principles of the science of learning into her teaching practices.
Retrieval Practice Improves Learning, but Will it Help ALL of my Students? (repost)
Late January, 2025 marks the Learning Scientists 9th birthday! If I’m remembering correctly, we started our little group on January 21, 2016 (but it was a long time ago and, as you all know, memory is not perfect!), and our first blog came out on February 5, 2016. Since then, we have produced a LOT of content. Today, I decided to …
See you in 2025!
Happy winter holidays! We’re taking a break to spend time with our families. We’ll return on Jan 16, 2025 with a podcast episode.
VLOG: Learning in Medical School
In this week’s post, Cindy and I (Althea) talk about our work with medical student learners. We have both worked for medical schools for a little over a year now and we’ve learned some things! We discuss common challenges for learning in medical school, efficient learning strategies, learning in the context of attentional disorders and anxiety, and what it means to prepare future healers.
Thank you to Our 2024 Community!
Today is (American) Thanksgiving so we wanted to take the opportunity to thank our community! We are so grateful for the continued support, encouragement, and contributions of our community.
Improving College Student Outcomes with Course Policies that Support Autonomy (Part 2)
Last week, my blog post covered a paper by Simon Cullen and Daniel Oppenheimer. Their paper is titled Choosing to Learn: The Importance of Student Autonomy in Higher Education. In their paper, they present two studies.
The first study, covered in Part 1, was a randomized controlled…