Despite its importance to students and teachers alike, engagement is a tricky concept to define… how can you tell if someone is engaged in learning? And do interest and attention lead to better learning?
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Making Tests (More) Fun Through Hints Increases Student Uptake Of Self-Testing
There is plenty of research supporting retrieval practice as a learning strategy. If left to their own devices, students report using self-testing as a way to assess how much they know, but not as a learning strategy per se (1). However, self-quizzing is a valuable learning strategy and more effective than other strategies…
Mistakes or Opportunities? Learning from Errors
Errors are a part of life. As fallible humans, we’re bound to make mistakes. In one of my classes this week, we discussed errors in terms of learning. How do we learn from our mistakes? In 2017, Janet Metcalfe wrote a thorough review of the literature on errors…
Research in Practice!
The Learning Agency has created videos of researchers and teachers working together to implement the science of learning into the classroom. These videos are brand new today!! You can check out Learning Agency Videos here.
As a researcher deeply interested in student learning, it is extremely exciting …
Retrieval Practice in the Classroom: Is Asking Questions Enough?
One possible way that an educator may choose to incorporate retrieval practice into their classroom is to simply stop and ask questions throughout a traditional lecture. By asking students questions, they will all be in engaging in retrieval practice…
Explain It To Me: The Beneficial Effects of Explaining for Memory
One of the talks introduced me to an interesting research question that is potentially applicable to authentic studying situations for students: When studying a text, should students pretend to explain the main ideas to someone, engage in retrieval practice, or does it not make a difference?