Materials on teaching

Bruce Hayes
UCLA

A couple of papers in which research by psychologists suggests nontraditional ways to teach college courses.  The experimental evidence suggests that testing produces more effective learning than just studying.  I'm experimenting (Fall 2009) with following their advice.

• Roediger, Henry L.III, and Jeffrey D. Karpicke (2006) The power of testing memory:  basic research and implications for educational practice.  Perspectives on Psychological Science 1 (3): 181-210.
• Karpicke, Jeffrey D. and Henry L. Roediger III (2008) The critical importance of retrieval for learning.  Science 319: 966-968.

Last updated September 24, 2009