It’s official: scientists have figured out the secrets for how to study effectively for exams. Or at least, a darn sight more effectively than you’d be doing without using these strategies. Read on, and discover how you too can: Study smarter, not harder: get more...
Looking to send your study productivity soaring? Look no further than the Pomodoro Study Method: the wildly popular time-management technique that will help you: Stay motivatedAvoid distractionsStay focusedAnd get more done! Francesco Cirillo is widely credited with...
Spaced repetition (or as it’s more commonly known to memory psychologists, “spaced learning”) is one of the most powerful and flexible of all memory strategies. If you have knowledge to learn for your course, I would consider spaced learning to be a...
Interleaving / interleaved practice is a powerful teaching & learning tool to build mastery of problems or skills faster. What is interleaving? Interleaving practice vs blocking practice The easiest way to explain interleaving is to first explain what interleaving...
Retrieval practice is, in my view, the single most powerful tool to build lasting knowledge in teaching and learning (I rate spaced learning as a close second). A curious peculiarity of our memory is that things are impressed better by active than by passive...
