The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NEAP) revealed that girls scored higher than boys in math and science ability as well as problem-solving skills. For the general public, this is a surprising finding because stereotypes dictate that boys should clearly ...
We have previously written about studying while listening to music. As a brief reminder, it depends on the task and your personality whether background music will help, hinder, or not make a difference while studying. In this piece, we are again talking ...
Last week, Naomi talked about how she implements spaced practice, interleaving, and retrieval practice in her science classroom. Here, she talks about the other three strategies – elaboration, concrete examples, and dual coding. ...
As psychology professors, we witness math anxiety first-hand when students sign up to take psychological statistics, often the least favorite required course for a psychology major. Cindy has taught this course every semester of her teaching career ...
A few months ago, we published a piece in which we answered 5 reader questions, and then a follow-up with 5 more questions answered. Here, we continue the series with 5 further questions.
Q1: Is there any real magic to the “rule of 3”? ...
We recently published a guest post in which RE teacher Dawn Cox described her school’s approach to integrating cognitive science into teaching. In this follow-up 2-part post, Chemistry teacher Naomi Hennah describes how she scaffolds her students to use the strategies...
