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Reading aloud or acting something out can help us remember new information, but those strategies may not always be practical... More
For Learning, Drawing a Picture May Really Be Worth a Thousand Words
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Researchers hope some new findings may eventually generate guidelines to help teachers optimally design classrooms... More
Heavily Decorated Classrooms Disrupt Attention and Learning In Young Children
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A new scientific report emphasizes the importance of teaching phonics in establishing fundamental reading skills in early childhood... More
Beyond the Reading Wars: How the Science of Reading Can Improve Literacy
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A roundup of the research evaluating five popular study strategies suggests that many students are missing two of the most powerful approaches to learning... More
Boost Your Study Strategy With Retrieval and Distributed Practice
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Healthy adults who learn information more quickly than their peers also have better long-term retention for the material despite spending... More
Efficient Learners May Remember More Over Time
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The second language learning literature emphasizes comprehension for language learning, but memory research suggests that producing the language is just as important for learning... More
Balancing Speaking and Listening for Language Learning
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To avoid overestimating your abilities, reflect on past learning rather than trying to guess how you’ll perform in the future... More
How to Learn What Not to Study
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College students who reflected about how to best use classroom resources had higher final grades relative to their peers... More
Thinking Strategically About Study Resources Boosts Students’ Final Grades
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There is little scientific evidence to suggest that speed reading offers a shortcut to understanding lots of text... More
Speed Reading Promises Are Too Good to Be True, Scientists Find
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A comprehensive research report provides an evidence-based guide that parents, educators, and app designers alike can use to evaluate the quality of so-called “educational” apps... More
Science of Learning Can Help Parents, Developers Grade Educational Apps
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College students who underwent mindfulness training showed improved working memory and verbal reasoning scores. ... More
Brief Mindfulness Training May Boost Test Scores, Working Memory
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Data suggest that taking notes by hand beats typing notes on a laptop for remembering conceptual information over time... More
Take Notes by Hand for Better Long-Term Comprehension
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Sleeping between study sessions may make it easier to recall what you studied and relearn what you forgot, with lasting results... More
Sleep Makes Relearning Faster and Longer-Lasting
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Students who surfed the web in a college course had lower scores on the final exam than did those who didn’t go online... More
Internet Use in Class Tied to Lower Test Scores
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Multitasking impaired students' overall memory but not their ability to identify and remember the most important material... More
Strategic Studying Limits the Costs of Divided Attention
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Research shows how math anxiety impacts students and suggests interventions to buffer these negative effects... More
Nervous About Numbers
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Research suggests that restudying material can be a useful learning strategy, especially if that restudying is spaced out in time... More
Testing and Spacing Both Aid Memory
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How we feel when encountering information that we're trying to learn biases our ability to predict what we'll remember... More
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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… More
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