The start of the fall term is just around the corner for many students. Hopefully students coming to this blog have already read up on how to study using effective study habits. This week's digest features a few resources to help you …
All in For Students
Spaced Retrieval Practice for Student Pharmacists
By Yana Weinstein
Earlier this week, Dr. Kate Snyder wrote about how she used strategies for effective learning from cognitive psychology for her horse-riding (if you haven't read that, go down it right now). I can't top that, but I did find an interesting article…
GUEST POST: Acing my Dressage Test: Cognitive Psychology at the Barn
When I’m not busy being a professor, I can be found at the barn with my nine year old Thoroughbred horse (Chance). Chance was bred to be a racehorse but he was too slow, so he opted for a career change.
Weekly Digest #117: The Relationship between Mental Health and Cognition
With the recent rise in mental health issues in young people (and academics), the manner in which those mental health issues affects cognitive performance becomes a serious consideration for those in education.
Optimizing Your Learning Schedule
One of the most effective learning strategies is spaced practice – the distribution of study time across multiple smaller study sessions. This learning strategy dates back to Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885 who conducted the first systematic investigations of spaced practice with himself as a participant…
GUEST POST: The Mythical Land of Psychological Types and Its Impact on Education
Since writing my previous guest post on the negative impact learning style theories have on effective student learning, I have been fixated on the many learning myths and misconceptions that seem endemic in education.