All in Learning Scientists Posts
If you read our blog even occasionally, you know retrieval practice has many benefits. Retrieval improves learning and memory, reduces test anxiety, and can protect against learning losses associated with stress. Today, I’ll be writing about another benefit of retrieval practice, reducing processing load. …
In an effort to design a course that would satisfy my learning objectives for the course and to try out an “ungrading” approach, I settled on using primary source articles …. I’ve spent the last few weeks reading about reading to figure out how to bridge this gap for students in my course.
There is plenty of research showing the benefits of spaced retrieval and active learning techniques on previously-taught material (1) (2). However, can these strategies also be used to boost self-assessment skills in students? Students with good self-assessment skills are better able to monitor…
One of our goals as Learning Scientists is to make sure that research is communicated in an accessible but accurate way. Unfortunately, many times science dissemination results in miscommunication and translation such that the original results and message are skewed.
With the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a great deal of discussion about kids learning from videos and through virtual classrooms (like Zoom). Many of these discussions have been around whether kids, especially younger school-aged children, can learn in the virtual environment. Of course, learning from technology is not new…
Last summer, many instructors were scrambling to adjust to teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. For many teachers that meant developing videos for students to watch. We’ve discussed some of the research on how students learn from videos, and this week I want to take a look at how best to create videos for students.
