All in For Students
Attention all college students who are trying to finish your semester strong. Do you have a Red Bull in your hand right now? Are you sitting in the library until 2 AM and studying for that one final exam that everyone is dreading? If you are this person, I am sure you ...
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....
There is no end to the amount of educational information out there. The problem is, not all of it is true. Among the scientific reports are collections of purposefully selected anecdotes, "experiments" conducted by companies trying to make a profit, and articles ...
When I (or any cognitive psychologist) refer to “short-term memory”, we’re talking about memory that lasts for 15-30 seconds. Not minutes, not a day, not a few weeks. Just 15-30 seconds. This differs quite drastically from the way people commonly use the term ...
