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Homework: A New User’s Guide
NPR: If you made it past the headline, you’re likely a student, concerned parent, teacher or, like me, a nerd nostalgist who enjoys basking in the distant glow of Homework Triumphs Past (second-grade report on
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Researchers Find That Frequent Tests Can Boost Learning
Scientific American: In schools across the U.S., multiple-choice questions such as this one provoke anxiety, even dread. Their appearance means it is testing time, and tests are big, important, excruciatingly unpleasant events. But not at
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Simple Maze Test Could Help Identify Drivers’ Accident Risk
A simple 3-minute test may accurately identify older drivers who are at heightened risk of serious accidents because of cognitive decline.
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Psychology: A simple trick to improve your memory
BBC: If I asked you to sit down and remember a list of phone numbers or a series of facts, how would you go about it? There’s a fair chance that you’d be doing it
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Studying for the Test by Taking It
The New York Times: PROTESTS are flaring up in pockets of the country against the proliferation of standardized tests. For many parents and teachers, school has become little more than a series of workout sessions
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Psychological Science Coming Soon to an MCAT Near You
Students applying to medical school in the US in the fall of 2016 will soon have to add psychological science to the topics they study in preparation for taking the Medical College Admissions Test, or
