Learning Scientists Blog — The Learning Scientists

Oct 9

Oct 9 Weekly Digest #30: Learning and Attention

Learning Scientists

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

Oct 2

Oct 2 Weekly Digest #29: Why do You Procrastinate, and What Can You do About it?

Learning Scientists

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

One of us (Yana) was asked by an undergraduate student to participate in an expert interview on procrastination for their College Writing class. Not being an actual expert on this – unless you count personal experience! – I had to quickly read up on the science ...

Sep 25

Sep 25 Weekly Digest #28: The Effectiveness of Study Groups

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Students, Digests

Last week was exam week in Cindy’s classes and after discussing their study strategies, many students reported having used study groups outside of class. Given that many students probably have exams coming up, we thought it might be beneficial to look into ...

Sep 15

Sep 15 The Combined Power of Sleep and Learning Strategies

Cindy Nebel

For Researchers, For Students, Learning Scientists Posts

In earlier blog posts we have discussed the benefits of sleep, spacing, and retrieval practice on long-term retention of information. As a (very) brief refresher, all three of these strategies increase the storage strength of information that we have studied ...

Sep 1

Sep 1 Learn How To Study Using... Dual Coding

Megan Sumeracki

For Students, For Teachers, Learning Scientists Posts

This is the final post in a series of six posts designed to help students learn how to study effectively. Today’s post is about dual coding – a method of studying where students combine visuals and words.

Aug 28

Aug 28 Weekly Digest #24: Educational Videos

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Students, For Researchers, Digests

The three Learning Scientists do research on learning and memory, but we are also teachers. (In fact, two of us consider ourselves teachers first and researchers second.) One thing we have noticed is that students like to watch videos in the classroom, and ...