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What’s the best way to learn? Psychologists tackle studying techniques
CBS News: What’s the best way to study for a test? A new study says taking practice tests and engaging in distributed practice — which means sticking to a schedule of spreading out your studying
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Highlighting Is a Waste of Time: The Best and Worst Learning Techniques
TIME: In a world as fast-changing and full of information as our own, every one of us — from schoolchildren to college students to working adults — needs to know how to learn well. Yet
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Which Study Strategies Make the Grade?
A scientific review suggests that several popular study strategies are ineffective, while effective strategies are underused.
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Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology
Read the Full Text (PDF, HTML) Some students seem to breeze through their school years, whereas others struggle, putting them at risk for getting lost in our educational system and not reaching their full potential.
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NITOP January 2014: There Is Still Time to Register!
Registration is still open as of November 20, 2013, for the 36th Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, January 3–6, 2014, at the TradeWinds Island Grand Resort in St. Pete Beach, Florida. For
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4th Vancouver International Conference on the Teaching of Psychology
July 25-27, 2013 Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites Vancouver, Canada Website: www.kwantlen.ca/ictp.html Contact: Steve Charlton at [email protected] The conference will cover a wide range of issues related to the teaching of psychology. It is designed