All in For Parents
In 1998, Mueller and Dweck published their landmark study establishing mindset as a possible influence on student performance (1). Since then, mindset has been widely studied and this work has led to multiple intervention programs. However, as with other education trends, ...
Calling all students, teachers, and parents: It's nearly summer!!! Summer break can be great, and can give us the rest and relaxation that we need. (Check out one of our digests last year on the importance of taking a break over the summer.) However, it's also ...
We have frequently received questions from students that go something like this: “I used your strategies and I still didn’t do very well on my exam. What did I do wrong?” We tried to address this a bit in a recent blog post explaining the strategies, and ...
We have a lot to say about how to study, but when you’re staring down a week’s worth of cumulative exams all of those good habits can go right out the window. Today, we are sharing some resources for how to make a study plan for finals, so that all that studying ...
Rude student e-mails are a recurring professor trope: female professors getting e-mails from prospective students that start with "Dear Sir", as well as last-minute requests for help with assignments with imminent deadlines, and the worst of them all: the grade-change...
We have written a lot about the 6 strategies for effective learning (spaced practice, interleaving, elaborative interrogation, concrete examples, dual coding, and retrieval practice). For example, in this piece Cindy discussed the powerful combination of spacing, retrieval practice, and sleep....
