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Over the past week, we have been working with Oliver Caviglioli to develop a concept map that depicts how we conceptualize retrieval practice. There are a lot of things we as researchers take for granted about this cognitive process, and Oliver thought it would ...
Yana and I started Learning Scientists about 2 months ago. This project has allowed us to start having conversations outside of our higher-ed academic setting. We are learning a ton, and are both basically obsessed with our new-found passion: blogging about science. ...
In a previous 2-part blog post (part 1, part 2), we discussed the benefits of frequently quizzing our students. Of course, providing quizzes in class can mean a lot of different things. I (Megan) mentioned that I give my students extra credit quizzes. Here’s what ...
Teaching students how to write in APA style? Learning to write in APA format for a class or a research project? We now have templates for one-experiment papers and multiple-experiment papers! Download our template papers here ...
I woke up in the middle of the night and checked Twitter (a terrible habit). Blurry-eyed, I scrolled until a post by David Weston on cognitive psychology applied to dance. Wow! Now I was wide awake.
I’ve been a cognitive psychologist for 10 years, ...
Teachers face the gargantuan task of integrating information from a myriad of sources in order to best help their students learn. But which sources are the most popular? We asked teachers on Twitter to participate in a poll; in 3 days, we received 181 responses. ...