Insights
The science of learning, in plain language.
Practical writing on how people learn and perform. Every claim is tied to a study you can read, and the references are listed at the end of each article.
Articles
Further reading
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The research behind these articles, and a few places to go deeper. Links open the publisher or an open copy.
- Improving Students' Learning With Effective Learning Techniques (opens in a new tab)Dunlosky and colleagues rank ten study techniques by evidence. The best single starting point.
- Test-Enhanced Learning (opens in a new tab)Roediger and Karpicke's classic experiment on why testing beats restudying.
- Distributed Practice in Verbal Recall Tasks (opens in a new tab)Cepeda and colleagues' synthesis of 317 experiments on spacing.
- Making Things Hard on Yourself, But in a Good Way (opens in a new tab)Bjork and Bjork on desirable difficulties, written for a general audience.
- Peer teaching through the science of learning (opens in a new tab)The Clinical Teacher, 2022. Applies learning science to peer teaching in medical education.