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May 19

May 19 Reducing Math Anxiety with Expressive Writing

For Teachers, For Students, Learning Scientists Posts

For a lot of students, final exams create a sense of dread and a lot of anxiety. As if they weren’t worried enough, that worry can actually cause worse performance on exams (1). One of the mechanisms for the lower performance may have to do with working memory.

Oct 15

Oct 15 Teaching APA Style: 7th Edition Template Papers

Megan Sumeracki

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

In 2016, I created a pair of template papers to assist in teaching my students APA style. The templates reflected the 6th edition of the APA manual. APA has since published a 7th edition of the publication manual. So, I updated the template papers to reflect APA 7th edition. I included notes …

Jun 8

Jun 8 Not All Writing Leads to More Learning

Yana Weinstein

For Teachers, For Researchers, Learning Scientists Posts

I sometimes write to learn things. This involves me setting myself the goal of writing a paper (and submitting it for publication) on something I don’t really know very much about. In a new paper, Arnold and colleagues tried to address some of the inconsistencies ...

Jan 29

Jan 29 Weekly Digest #44: Teaching Composition

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, Digests

Teaching students to write well can be extremely difficult. As professors, we’re always looking for good resources and tips for developing our students as writers at the college level. We’ve posted digests with writing resources for teachers and students, resources to assist with grading writing, and resources to help teachers teach about plagiarism, and help students recognize plagiarism. Today’s ...

Jan 15

Jan 15 Weekly Digest #42: Are You Writing Yet?

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Researchers, Digests

Many of us in education are avid writers – or at least we’re trying really hard to keep up with that status. We’re writing blog posts, books, articles for the popular press, research summaries for colleagues, research articles for journals, and the list goes on. ...

Dec 11

Dec 11 Weekly Digest #39: Writing Strategies for Students

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For Students, For Teachers, Digests

There is nothing worse than writing that first paragraph of an essay. The crippling onset of writer’s block is inevitable, and can easily spiral into a circle of procrastination, until only one day remains before the essay is due. This is one of the many problems students ...