When I’ve given lectures and workshops on learning and memory to my colleagues I’ve been accused of focusing too much on how learning works in the Sciences and not enough on how learning works in the Arts.
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The Benefits of Longhand Notetaking Versus Slide Annotations
From own experience as a lecturer and sitting in student-staff-forum meetings where students report what is going well and what needs to be improved, I know that there is one topic that comes to haunt us in every meeting: Provision of lecture slides before the lecture…
How Does Question Difficulty Order Affect Evaluations of Test Performance? (Part 2)
Last week, I wrote a blog post that ended with a data prediction cliffhanger. I asked readers to predict how question difficulty order on a test might affect students’ evaluations of their own performance on that test.
How Does Question Difficulty Order Affect Evaluations of Test Performance?
If we want to improve student learning, we also need to worry about students' attunement with their own memory performance. That is, if students can't gauge how well they did on a test, they're going to have more trouble preparing adequately for the next one.
Online Learning may not be Ideal for All Students
With advances in technology, the use of online and hybrid (partially online and partially in person) classes has increased. There seems to be a lot of excitement around different course formats that are available, with some institutions even pushing for more and more …
An Interview with a Learning Scientist: Welcome Althea Kaminske!
This week I wanted to take the opportunity to introduce myself to the Learning Scientist community by answering some questions.