Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) classes have been the strong focus of discovery ( or constructivist, problem-based, active-learning) methods of instruction, certainly with some success...
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Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) classes have been the strong focus of discovery ( or constructivist, problem-based, active-learning) methods of instruction, certainly with some success...
This post continues a series of posts on the value of memory. I wrote a few months ago about how memory is used for everything we do, and recently published a post-humus guest blog by Ralph A. Raimi in defense of memorization.
We love teacher blogs. They have become an amazing way to take a peek into a diverse set of classrooms, and for us sharing blogs has been a way to open up communication among many different types of educators, including teachers and researchers. If you're ...
Metacognition refers broadly to thinking about your thinking. Within the education realm, metacognition has been used to argue for a wide variety of various activities, which may extend beyond the research evidence.
Faculty in my psychology department study a large variety of different psychological phenomena, from a large variety of different lenses. We have community psychology, cognitive psychologists, developmental psychology, quantitative psychologists, and many more.
The new year has started and probably most of you have returned to work and/or school by now – or will do so soon. It turns out that returning to the previous work/study routine is surprisingly difficult. Before the winter break everyone is extremely busy, then...