Many students think that ramming information into their brain over and over again is the best way to learn it. But studying the same information over and over again has its limits. Recent advances in ...

Sure, students in the classroom have to remember facts, but they also have to apply them. Some research efforts to enhance learning zero in on methods to strengthen memory and recall, while others ...

While testing can be useful as an assessment tool, researchers suggests that the actual process of taking a test can also help us to learn and retain new information over the long term and apply it ...

Pop quiz! Tests are good for: (a) Assessing what you've learned; (b) Learning new information; (c) a & b; (d) None of the above. The correct answer? According to research from psychological science, ...

Image-sentence retrieval task aims to search images for given sentences and retrieve sentences from image queries. The current retrieval methods are all supervised methods that require a large number ...

Megan Sumeracki is an assistant professor at Rhode Island College. She co-founded the Learning Scientists in January 2016. Sumeracki received her master’s in experimental psychology at Washington ...

In the digital age, the ability to find relevant information quickly and accurately has become increasingly critical. From simple web searches to complex enterprise-knowledge management systems, ...