Another barrier to consider is that students may simply not know that quizzing is better than re-reading. It’s easy enough for us to get caught up in the literature and assume that students and even teachers all “know” about ...
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How Can we Help our Students Love Quizzing? (Part 1)
I (Megan) teach mostly Juniors and Seniors at Rhode Island College. But, I still start every class with a lesson on effective study strategies. At Rhode Island College, many students commute to school and have jobs outside ...
The Boston Globe Published our Piece!
Last night, the Boston Globe published our highly controversial opinion on standardized testing. The comments are already pouring in – we’re “supporting our own business” and we “don't give a flying pig about students”. Read the article here. ...
Is It Just Semantics? Yana's Guest Post on Learning Spy
Recently, Yana posted this envelope on our @AceThatTest Twitter account, and the post went viral. We were very excited when David Didau (@LearningSpy) blogged about the envelope in two fantastic posts, "The Learning Styles Myth Debunked on the Back of an Envelope" and ...
How to Study a Textbook: A Researcher’s Perspective
One thing that has always bothered me about the advice that students should practice retrieval is the lack of specific instructions regarding how they should go about actually doing it. It’s all well and good for us to tell our students they ought to do something – but ...
Is Intuition the Enemy of Instruction? (Part 2)
The other day, we discussed how our intuitions aren’t always accurate when it comes to our learning, or the learning of our students. The second big problem arising from reliance on intuition, which we’ll discuss today, is confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is ...