The growth of online learning, enabled by the availability on the Internet of different forms of
didactic materials such as MOOCs and Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), in turn, increases …

The science of learning has made a considerable contribution to our understanding of
effective teaching and learning strategies. However, few instructors outside of the field are …

Knowledge tracing (KT) refers to the problem of predicting future learner performance given
their past performance in educational applications. Recent developments in KT using …

Concern that students in the United States are less proficient in mathematics, science, and
reading than their peers in other countries has led some to question whether American …

Mindset theory predicts that a growth mindset can substantially improve children's resilience
to failure and enhance important outcomes such as school grades. We tested these …

Educational practice does not, for the most part, rely on research findings. Instead, there'sa
preference for relying on our intuitions about what's best for learning. But relying on intuition …

In theoretical cognitive science, there is a tension between highly structured models whose
parameters have a direct psychological interpretation and highly complex, general-purpose …

Learning is often identified with the acquisition and encoding of new information. Reading a
textbook, listening to a lecture, participating in a hands-on classroom activity, and studying a …

Spaced repetition is a technique for efficient memorization which uses repeated review of
content following a schedule determined by a spaced repetition algorithm to improve long …

Taking advantage of the vast history of theoretical and empirical findings in the learning
literature we have inherited, this research offers a synthesis of prior findings in the domain of …