24 readings with original sources
Learning and education
Learning can mean remembering a fact, solving a task or applying knowledge in a new situation. These readings explore research on education while keeping those differences in view.
What to look for in these studies
A result on one test does not necessarily show lasting learning or transfer to another task. Look at the age of participants, the setting, the comparison and when learning was measured. No method works equally well for every person and subject.
- What did participants learn, and how was it measured?
- How much time passed before the assessment?
- What teaching method or condition was compared?
Explore the research
- People who reached deeper sleep were more likely to find the hidden rule
- When people chose what to practice, they stayed with the same topic
- Grading peers and being graded raised scores slightly
- Pauses in handwriting described writing better than pressure
- With review in both formats, the flipped class did not have higher grades
- Sharing a desk for one semester made friendship more likely
- More correct answers after questions than after rereading
- A kindergarten program with play and self-regulation: 33% read at a first-grade level, versus 10%
- Moving while counting improved math, but other outcomes did not change.
- Chess instead of math: the clearest signal was in pattern recognition
- An online course on learning math improved scores
- After about 28 game sessions, children matched sounds with letters better
- With ABRA, the clear improvement was in letters and sounds
- With PASSI, the initial gap between bilingual and monolingual households was no longer detectable
- No advantage for three reading programs was seen in second grade
- A formative-assessment routine improved understanding of motion
- More correct answers with explanations than with a right-or-wrong mark
- A message of encouragement did not change first-exam grades
- After a virtual lab, scores rose from 64% to 82%
- After naps longer than half an hour, students remembered the lesson better
- Split sleep with a nap: participants recognized previously seen items better
- Immersive technology and regular classes led to similar knowledge
- Groups that discussed answers understood a little more physiology
- Students who added a lesson with breaks to physics made greater gains