Feel like children are not learning over summer break, use psychology to think again!

Students have immediate access to their work on a smartphone. According to Pew research, 85% of Americans own a smartphone, with that...

Any learner can imagine when a lack of time, planning, or the just “life got in the way” led to pulling an all-nighter. Visit a college...

I recently visited my undergraduate alma mater, the University of Mount Union, in Ohio to talk about issues related to learning and...

Have you ever looked at vacation pictures and felt more connected to the picture itself than the actual memory of the vacation? We often...

This spring semester I am excited to be teaching a new course on effective learning. The course, Psychology 150: Science of Learning for...

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My airplane conversation typically goes from my seat mate being relaxed that as an experimental psychologist I cannot analyze them, to...

Have you ever heard someone say they were a bad napper? I have not and can remember my undergraduate days when one of my first thoughts...

You are in high school sitting in a desk. Flimsy metal feet of the chair, which are connected to the desk, squeak on the floor. Your run...

This post originally appeared as written on learningscientists.org Things are going well for you as a college student. You like your...

After class a student told me, “I thought I had been taught how to learn in school but now you’ve ruined everything.” She asked me to...

Personalized learning sounds great. The idea that you have one preferred way to learn best is appealing. But where you go wrong is...

I have been teaching for seven years at a mid-sized university in the Midwest. The first few years of my teaching I didn’t feel that...