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Last week, Emily Oster wrote a ParentData newsletter titled What to do when what’s best is impossible: How to embrace the “second best” option. The main idea is that in parenting, and in life, there are recommendations based on some perfect ideal and this is the first best option. But …
‘It takes a village’ is a phrase that seems to ring true for me, both in my personal life and as an academic. I strongly believe that bidirectional communication among teachers and researchers is key, and I love to engage in these conversations and use those to help decide on content for the blog. …
When creating content and materials for the Learning Scientists website, we try to include many different types of forms (NOT because of Learning Styles, but because of preferences, and diversity in the type of media an individual can consume!). Today’s blog post revisits a paper that I covered …
Like with many effective learning strategies, what students think is helping them learn is not what actually helps them learn. In two experiments presented by Hillary Mullet and colleagues (2014, 1), University engineering students received relatively immediate feedback or delayed feedback …
Recently, two new meta-analyses were published analyzing growth mindset interventions. It is not our goal to create a conversation about the relative merits of these studies, but rather to revisit the important question surrounding when and how growth mindset interventions should be undertaken.
For over a century cognitive psychologists have been studying spaced practice and retrieval practice, resulting in a great deal of evidence that these two strategies work very well to improve student learning. However, no single experiment or paper is going to be able to answer, in full, the question “how does …
