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Jun 22

Jun 22 Learning Strategies Promoted by Academic Support Centers

Learning Scientists Posts, For Teachers, For Students, For Parents, For Researchers

Did you know we had a Learning Scientists Q&A group on Facebook? Members of this group are teachers, parents, students, and others interested in education from all over the world.

Jun 14

Jun 14 The Art and Science of Memory Part 2

Althea Need Kaminske

Learning Scientists Posts, For Parents, For Students, For Teachers, For Researchers

This post continues from a post I did last week discussing whether there is a difference between memory and learning and a difference in learning in the Arts and Sciences.

Jun 7

Jun 7 The Art and Science of Memory Part 1

Althea Need Kaminske

Learning Scientists Posts, For Teachers, For Researchers, For Parents, For Students

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.

May 31

May 31 The Benefits of Longhand Notetaking Versus Slide Annotations

Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel

Learning Scientists Posts, For Teachers, For Students

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…

May 27

May 27 How Does Question Difficulty Order Affect Evaluations of Test Performance? (Part 2)

Yana Weinstein

For Researchers, For Teachers, Learning Scientists Posts, For Students

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.

May 18

May 18 How Does Question Difficulty Order Affect Evaluations of Test Performance?

Yana Weinstein

For Teachers, For Researchers, For Students, Learning Scientists Posts

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.