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Oct 25

Oct 25 Hocus Focus

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

It’s the time of year when the days are getting shorter and, in the case of some of my students, so are attention spans…

Oct 22

Oct 22 Weekly Digest #129: Students Under Stress

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Students, For Researchers, For Parents, Digests

When one of our very first guest bloggers reached out to us recently asking about resources for students under severe stress, we realized that we hadn’t broached this issue on our blog yet. This hugely important issues will take more than a quick digest to explore,

Oct 11

Oct 11 Retrieval Practice promotes Deductive Reasoning

Cindy Nebel

For Researchers, For Teachers, Learning Scientists Posts

Testing sometimes gets a bad reputation. This is perhaps unsurprising in the world of standardized testing, but it has led to some misconceptions…

Oct 6

Oct 6 What does massed reading and watching do to attention?

Yana Weinstein

For Teachers, For Researchers, Learning Scientists Posts

What happens when students read a text twice in a row or watch the same lecture video twice in a row? We know from research on retrieval practice and spaced practice that such “massed” repetition of information does little to enhance long-term learning.

Sep 30

Sep 30 Weekly Digest #126: Memory Researchers As Science Communicators

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Parents, For Researchers, Digests

In today’s digest, we would like to highlight researchers who have spoken or written about how our memory works in order to inform a broader audience…

Sep 27

Sep 27 Optimising Learning Using Retrieval Practice

Megan Sumeracki

Learning Scientists Posts, For Researchers, For Teachers

This piece originally appeared in the Spring 2018 issue of Impact by The Chartered College of Teaching. You can read more about Impact here. Note the formatting of references and British English spelling was retained.

Retrieval practice, or reconstructing knowledge …