What Do Teachers Need to Know About Memory?

What should teachers understand about memory and learning and how should that shape the classroom?

Reverse Engineering the Multiple-Choice Question

A classroom strategy to enhance multiple choice questioning.

How can students better use multiple choice questions for studying?

How do our students consider their learning before, during, and after a lesson?

Can multiple-choice questions provide opportunities for learning superior to questions requiring recall of information?

Video, notes, and slides from a presentation I led.

Where should teachers looking to get into the cognitive sciences start? What resources to read? Who to follow?

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

Maybe the most important question we can ask in our classroom is this: What were they thinking?

A simple and widely applicable strategy to assess student understanding.

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