I have to hand it to Google Scholar – sometimes, their algorithms are spot on. This week, I was alerted to a brand new meta-analysis on retrieval practice (1) – just published on February 1st. This meta-analysis is by far the most comprehensive ...
GUEST POST: Eureka... It Works!
I had the opportunity to tutor students in Introduction to Psychology last semester at Rhode Island College. I have never tutored before this semester, but when I was contemplating how to approach tutoring, I decided to treat it like a study group. I knew ...
Weekly Digest #45: Dual Coding, Sketchnoting, and Aphantasia
According to the dual coding theory (1), we process verbal and visual information through separate channels. We’ve written about how to study using dual coding (and the article was recently picked up by Digital Promise); we also had a student write about how she uses dual coding to study ...
Bad Memory? Try the Techniques of the Ancient Greeks
Have you ever seen clips of people competing in so-called memory competitions and asked yourself: How do they do this? How are they able to memorize a whole bunch of random facts or numbers in a short amount of time? Watch the video ...
GUEST POST: Learning About Current Events -- We Must Break Out of the Social Media Echo Chamber
This isn’t going to be a political post, but I need to briefly touch on politics to frame the narrative. I scroll through Facebook a couple times a day. Every time I refresh, I see a handful of news articles posted by friends. Predominantly, I turn to The New York ...
Weekly Digest #44: Teaching Composition
Teaching students to write well can be extremely difficult. As professors, we’re always looking for good resources and tips for developing our students as writers at the college level. We’ve posted digests with writing resources for teachers and students, resources to assist with grading writing, and resources to help teachers teach about plagiarism, and help students recognize plagiarism. Today’s ...