The Learning Scientists Podcast

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A podcast for teachers, students, and parents about evidence based practice and learning.

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Episodes

Episode 8 - Interleaving

Episode 8 - Interleaving Learning Scientists This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust . Show Notes: Over the past few decades, cognitive psychologists have found evidence for the following 6 strategies for effective learning: Spaced Practice Retrieval Practice Elaboration Interleaving Concrete Examples Dual Coding Today, we are talking about interleaving. Be sure to listen to our spaced practice and retrieval practice episodes, as those are the most important strategies! Interleaving is a l...

Dec 06, 2017•27 min•Ep. 8

Episode 7 - Bite-Size Research on Elaborative Interrogation

Episode 7 - Bite-Size Research on Elaborative Interrogation Learning Scientists This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust . Show Notes: This is a bite-size research episode, where we briefly describe research findings on a specific topic. This week, Megan Sumeracki talks about elaborative interrogation with middle school students. In the study Megan describes (1) , elaborative interrogation worked well for students who were working independently, and with a partner. In this study, 6th and 7t...

Nov 15, 2017•7 min•Ep. 7

Episode 6 - Elaborative Interrogation

Episode 6 - Elaborative Interrogation Learning Scientists This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust . Show Notes: Over the past few decades, cognitive psychologists have found evidence for the following 6 strategies for effective learning: Spaced Practice Retrieval Practice Elaboration Interleaving Concrete Examples Dual Coding Today, we are talking about elaboration. Be sure to listen to our spaced practice and retrieval practice episodes, as those are the most important strategies! Elabora...

Nov 01, 2017•14 min•Ep. 6

Episode 5 - Bite-Size Research on Spaced Retrieval

Episode 5 - Bite-Size Research on Spaced Retrieval Learning Scientists This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust . Show Notes: This is a bite-size research episode, where we briefly describe research findings on a specific topic. This week, Yana Weinstein talks about combining spacing and retrieval practice. In Episode 2 we introduced retrieval practice, and in Episode 4 we introduced spaced practice. We are often asked whether these effective strategies for learning are only applicable to f...

Oct 18, 2017•11 min•Ep. 5

Episode 4 - Spaced Practice

Episode 4 - Spaced Practice Learning Scientists This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust . Show Notes: Over the past few decades, cognitive psychologists have found evidence for the following 6 strategies for effective learning: Spaced Practice Retrieval Practice Elaboration Interleaving Concrete Examples Dual Coding Today we’re introducing spaced practice - spacing out studying the same information over multiple sessions rather than cramming it all into one (1) . What is spaced practice? W...

Oct 04, 2017•15 min•Ep. 4

Episode 3 - Bite-Size Research on Retrieval Practice Formats

Episode 3 - Bite-Size Research on Retrieval Practice Formats Learning Scientists This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust . Show Notes: This is our first bite-size research episode, where we briefly describe research findings on a specific topic. This week, Megan Sumeracki talks about retrieval practice. In our second episode , we introduced retrieval practice or bringing information to mind. We know from a century of research that retrieval practice improves learning. There are a lot of wa...

Sep 20, 2017•10 min•Ep. 3

Episode 2 - Retrieval Practice

Episode 2 - Retrieval Practice Learning Scientists This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust . Show Notes: Over the past few decades, cognitive psychologists have found evidence for the following 6 strategies for effective learning: Spaced Practice Retrieval Practice Elaboration Interleaving Concrete Examples Dual Coding Today we’re introducing retrieval practice – in other words, bringing information to mind. How does retrieval practice help learning? Retrieval practice is beneficial in man...

Sep 06, 2017•21 min•Ep. 2

Episode 1 - Welcome to the Learning Scientists Podcast!

Episode 1 - Welcome to the Learning Scientists Podcast! Learning Scientists This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust . Show Notes: Welcome to the Learning Scientists Podcast – a podcast for teachers, students, and parents about evidence-based practice and learning. In this episode, the two of us – Dr. Yana Weinstein ( UMass Lowell ) and Dr. Megan Sumeracki (formerly Megan Smith; Rhode Island College ) – introduce ourselves and tell you a bit about our backgrounds, how we came to start the L...

Sep 05, 2017•17 min•Ep. 1

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