Newsletter Making children's mobile phones useful for learning New research demonstrates 5th graders benefit from a mobile app that prompts vocabulary studying.
Newsletter Bad news: There's no such thing as learning styles. Good news: You have ALL the learning styles!
Newsletter Article Titles I Adore Vol. 53: "ChatGPT is about as exciting as a Twinkie" In his latest article, Dr. Stephen Aguilar compares ChatGPT to a TV dinner.
Newsletter Why Models are More Important Than Replications Berna Devezer and Erkan Buzbas make a compelling case for a model-centric paradigm in psychology.
Newsletter Students learn best when educators remember the 4 Hs. The sciences of learning and development reveal why students learn best in contexts that support their Heart, Head, Health, and Home
Newsletter Does the higher education general education curriculum matter? Yes. New research by Orona et al make a strong case for the liberal arts.
Newsletter Education research should embrace open science. But let's be kind on the way there. Renbarger et al. make a good case for kindly and gently pushing authors to adopt open science practices.
Newsletter Grading rubrics - what are they good for? Real talk: the empirical evidence supports the (careful) use of grading rubrics.
Newsletter Silly Rabbit! Growth Mindset Interventions Are For Teachers! (Too) A new study suggests growth mindset interventions for teachers have a demonstrable effect on student learning.
Newsletter Okay, so how can AI be used to improve education? Hybrid Human-AI models show promise and are a model for reasonable use of AI in education.
Newsletter What if there was a way to help all students learn better and more efficiently? Making self-regulated learning skills a focus of K-12 education would help all students.
Newsletter Expertise matters. And AI isn't an expert. On anything. Research on expertise makes me skeptical of ChatGPT, etc.
Newsletter Having trouble delivering effective feedback? Consider the motivations and emotions affecting how your feedback is received.
Newsletter What's the proper role for AI in systematic review research? AI can help researchers with the mechanics of doing a systematic review, but golly - it shouldn't do the review for them!
Newsletter Teacher training in metacognitive strategy instruction leads to reading comprehension gains Making the argument for even more integration of the science of learning into educator training
Newsletter Racial Feedback Bias, Racial Anxiety, and How Well-Meaning Doesn't Mean Beneficial Kent Harber's Model of Threat-Infused Intergroup Feedback has important implications for truly addressing racial bias.
Newsletter Should we be teaching growth mindsets or not? Veronica Yan and Brendan Schuetze have a terrific take on this question, modeling the way scholarly discourse should happen.
Newsletter Social and natural sciences are importantly different. Ignoring that is dangerous. Jason Blakely's article on scientism and its consequences is worth a careful read.
Newsletter Does a "liberal arts" education promote complex cognition reasoning? A new study suggests yes, there is value in the "liberal arts" aspects of college.
Newsletter The Marshmallow Test as a Test of Psychology Knowledge Describing the marshmallow test as a test of self-control is a good sign a person doesn't know much about psychology.
Newsletter What is "normal" reading? A recent paper questions what we lose when we assume there's a thing called "normal" reading.
Newsletter Here. We. Go. The debate about growth mindsets heats up (yet again), but also illustrates something important about scholarship.
Newsletter What the movie "The Jerk" has to teach us about source evaluation Deep source evaluation strategies may be backfiring in a non-intuitive way.
Newsletter You gotta love a study on bullshit. New evidence that only particular kinds of beliefs predict susceptibility to bad information
Newsletter How exactly does effective feedback work? Winstone and Nash have proposed a psychological science of effective feedback.