Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques. Improving learning. Beginning this month, the Monitor is collaborating with the APA Office of CE in Psychology to offer a quarterly continuing education article known as “CE Corner.” This feature will provide you with updates on critical developments in psychology, culled from peer-reviewed literature and written by leading psychology experts.
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Overview CE credits: 1 Exam items: 10 Purchase the online exam Learning objectives: After reading this article, participants will be able to: In this article, I hope to accomplish two goals. Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning. Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab - Research. Applying Cognitive Psychology to Enhance Educational Practice The primary goal of this research, which is funded by the James S.
McDonnell foundation, is to promote learning and memory performance within educational contexts through the investigation of principles in cognitive psychology. Studies address issues of transfer-appropriate and material-appropriate processing between encoding and retrieval. Applying tests in order to enhance learning and determining the desirable amount and timing of feedback regarding an individual's memory performance are methods that are currently under investigation. The overlying theme of "desirable difficulties," first introduced by Robert Bjork (1994), is also explored through manipulations in the spacing of learning events and the study schedule produced by interleaving various to-be-learned items, such as English-Swahili translated word pairs or prose materials.
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