Superfoods and Classroom Instruction

What sort of diet are you providing for your students?

Confidence Weighted Multiple-Choice Questioning

Can this strategy for answering multiple-choice questions improve retention of both correct and incorrect responses?

Two strategies to introduce to students when they ask, "How should I study for the test?"

What ideas about assessment block students from seeing it as a powerful tool for learning?

There's evidence to support the use of diminishing cues retrieval practice in place of standard retrieval practice.

How can ranking multiple-choice answers increase cognition and understanding of material?

I was recently asked this question: What advice would you give to a young adult student who can't tell whether she knows the material?

How can growing a brain dump lead to more efficient and effective study habits?

How can removing goals during assessment lead to better thinking with/about class material?

When reviewing, should recall or recognition questions be provided for students to answer?

I was recently given the perfect chance to show my students how powerful spacing practice can be on retrieval of material.

Maybe boredom, when used as an indicator of learning, can be quite useful in the classroom.

Two simple strategies that are easily applied across a wide range of classes.

How can analysis of formative assessment lead to more deliberate studying and more efficient and effective study habits?

How are the benefits of retrieval practice affected by the collaborative setting?

A simple activity students can utilize to assess their learning and direct their studying.