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Recent research in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and neurobiology and behavior, have identified several key factors that have been validated by empirical research. What are the factors that enhance or inhibit involvement in learning? Engagement tends to decline if an activity is motivated by the promise of a reward (as opposed to an intrinsic motivation, such [...]
Recent research has demonstrated that a student’s ability to remember, retrieve, and utilize information is greater when an instructor’s presentations of difficult material are spread out over time rather than concentrated intensively. Testing can be a valuable learning tool. It can focus on evaluation, or it can be used in other ways: to motivate study, consolidate learning, [...]
A learners’ psychological development does not end at adolescence. Indeed, it is clear that the college and subsequent years are just as important in a learners’ cognitive, emotional, moral, and social development. How does college affect the brain of students? It influences their verbal, quantitative, and subject matter competence, their cognitive skills, their identity, self [...]
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