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...
These are the BEST exam study tips to help students build effective study skills. They’re simple, fast, and actionable, and based on the latest science. I’m a memory psychologist and study productivity expert, and have taught thousands of students how to study...
I’ve seen hundreds of daily study routine examples for students in my years as an exam success coach. Some were good. Some were disastrous. Virtually all had significant room for improvement. Today, I’m going to share a study psychologist’s ultimate guide to...
For most of us, our memories have their limits! Chunking helps you overcome the natural limitations of your memory, and is therefore a very powerful trick for helping you to learn information and get it into memory. Read on to discover what chunking is, and to explore...
