Learning Science

Annals of Dyslexia - The purpose of this study was to examine the application of the multimedia and modality principles on cued-recall, recognition, and mental effort of college students with and...

Teaching Students How to Learn in Your Classes Teachers often support student learning by providing study guides or guidelines for exams, assignments and projects. These typically focus on content,…

Retrieval practice is a strategy in which bringing information to mind enhances and boosts learning. Deliberately recalling information forces us to pull our knowledge “out” and examine what we know.

PDF | Students learn better if they are curious about the topic. Curiosity is both a trait and a state. This essay describes what we know about... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Listen to this episode from The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast on Spotify. Are we taking the wrong approach to learning? The book "Make It Stick" presents new research that shows how some of our most common studying and teaching practices don't have any real research to support them. In this episode, I talk to one of the book's authors, Peter Brown, about some of the book's most important takeaways.

Listen to this episode from The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast on Spotify. Cognitive scientists are learning more all the time about what strategies really work to help people learn, but teachers don't always know how to apply that knowledge in the classroom. In this episode, I talk with Pooja Agarwal and Patrice Bain, authors of the new book Powerful Teaching, about the four research-based teaching "power tools" that can be used in any classroom to boost student learning.

Taking a memory test not only assesses what one knows, but also enhances later retention, a phenomenon known as the testing effect. We studied this effect with ...

In this episode of Progressively Incorrect, I interview Nidhi Sachdeva, a Toronto-based PhD candidate who, like many of you I suspect, is exploring ways to embed the science of learning into teachi…