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Sep 30

Sep 30 Weekly Digest #126: Memory Researchers As Science Communicators

For Teachers, For Parents, For Researchers, Digests

In today’s digest, we would like to highlight researchers who have spoken or written about how our memory works in order to inform a broader audience…

Sep 27

Sep 27 Optimising Learning Using Retrieval Practice

Megan Sumeracki

Learning Scientists Posts, For Researchers, For Teachers

This piece originally appeared in the Spring 2018 issue of Impact by The Chartered College of Teaching. You can read more about Impact here. Note the formatting of references and British English spelling was retained.

Retrieval practice, or reconstructing knowledge …

Sep 25

Sep 25 GUEST POST: Making Three Years of Learning Stick or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Prepare for My Comprehensive Exam

Learning Scientists

This past May I passed my doctoral program’s comprehensive exam, becoming a doctoral candidate in counseling psychology. This was easily the most daunting academic challenge I’ve faced: A grueling, week long gauntlet of writing …

Sep 20

Sep 20 Highlighting With Reservations

Althea Need Kaminske

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

After reading a summary of the research on highlighting I became an adamant anti-highlighter (1). I mean, it was worse than re-reading in some cases. Re-reading. The standard control in memory experiments.

Sep 18

Sep 18 GUEST POST: Operant Conditioning Success in Graduate School: To Do Lists

Althea Need Kaminske

Guest Posts, For Students

Getting into a doctoral program is an exciting opportunity that is not for everyone. I think that I speak for some, but not all, when I say that a doctoral program is initially not respected or understood for the beast that it is until you’re in the midst of it.

Sep 17

Sep 17 Weekly Digest #125: The Science Behind Always Being Late

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Students, For Parents, For Researchers, Digests

Some of us are always punctual, whereas others seem to have more trouble arriving places on time. While cultural attitudes towards punctuality and tardiness do vary, research suggests that this behavior negatively impacts us both at work and in school.