All four of us are in Portland, Oregon! We are here for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology annual conference. If you’re attending on location, please check out our talk on Friday (Oct 6) at 11:25 Pacific time in the Grand Ballroom. Our session is one of the ones being recorded, …
No strategy works all the time. Not even retrieval practice. Today I want to share a new Open Access article (so you can go read it for yourself if you’d like!) that *spoiler alert! found a situation in which restudying was actually better for retention than retrieval.
Time management can be a challenge for learners at all levels…This digest provides some resources for calendaring and scheduling. Whether you prefer online calendars and tools or pen and paper, I’ve gathered some resources from around the web to help you get the most out of your calendar system.
Recently a new pre-testing study was published, looking at the delayed effects of pre-testing in an authentic classroom. In this study, undergraduate students who were enrolled in a large section of a research methods course were given pretests before three lectures...
…Today’s blog post revisits a paper that Althea and I covered a few years ago in a podcast episode (Episode 49 Learning Styles and Dual Coding). It is a repeat, and specifically, we tend to repeat ourselves a lot when it comes to learning styles and dual coding. However, repetition, especially …
…even if you have a degree in Psychology the only thing you probably know about Mary Whiton Calkins is that she was the first female president of the American Psychological Association. She was also, separately, the first female president of the American Philosophical Association. I was also delighted to find out that her early work focused on memory. Her ideas and theories about paired associate learning and the effects of primacy and recency predated modern memory research by about 70 years. She also was never awarded her PhD.
