Articles About study techniques
Productive Failure: Why Solving It Wrong First Makes the Lesson Stick

The best experiment against this method tested ten-year-olds. The meta-analysis for it says the effect reverses at that age. Neither side cites the other on it.
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23 Aug
Combining Active Recall with Spaced Repetition

The two most tested ideas in the science of learning were discovered apart, ignored for decades, and only later found to be stronger together than either is alone.study techniques, memory science, cognitive psychology
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29 May
The Feynman Technique

A Nobel physicist's habit of explaining hard ideas in plain words became a famous study method. Here is the science behind why it works, and where it fails.
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29 May
Why Offline Study Works Better: the Science Behind Disconnected Learning

Your phone is face-down on the desk. Silent. You haven't touched it in twenty minutes. And it is still making you dumber. Here is what neuroscience says about why studying without screens produces deeper, longer-lasting learning.
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6 May