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We have previously written about studying while listening to music. As a brief reminder, it depends on the task and your personality whether background music will help, hinder, or not make a difference while studying. In this piece, we are again talking ...
A few months ago, we published a piece in which we answered 5 reader questions, and then a follow-up with 5 more questions answered. Here, we continue the series with 5 further questions.
Q1: Is there any real magic to the “rule of 3”? ...
Researchers and education scholars have been debating about the answer to this question for decades (1, 2). Some have suggested that novice learners should receive direct instruction. In other words, to learn best they need guidance, and instructors should ...
Early on, before cognitive psychologists started researching the processes involved, memory was often described with a “library” analogy. This is the idea that memories are put down in our minds as though they were written down in books, and stored away ...
One of the frequent gimmicks supplied to educators is that a product enhances “brain learning” or something of that sort. Well, folks, we’re here to tell you that all learning takes place in the brain. (And so these are marketing ploys.) In today’s blog, I ...
If you’ve ever taught, you’re probably familiar with the following experience: a student comes to your office, incredulous that they got a bad grade on a test. “But, but, I studied a lot and I was so sure I knew the material!” There are two key timepoints at which ...
