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 …

An interleaved presentation of items (as opposed to a blocked presentation) has been
proposed to foster inductive learning (interleaving effect). A meta-analysis of the interleaving …

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 …

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

Object play yields enormous benefits for infant development. However, little is known about
natural play at home where most object interactions occur. We conducted frame‐by‐frame …

Abstract Die Corona-Pandemie führte infolge der Schulschließungen zu einer
Ausnahmesituation, die Lehrkräfte vor neue und unvorhersehbare Herausforderungen …

Humans can learn to perform multiple tasks in succession over the lifespan (“continual”
learning), whereas current machine learning systems fail. Here, we investigated the …

Humans can learn several tasks in succession with minimal mutual interference but perform
more poorly when trained on multiple tasks at once. The opposite is true for standard deep …

The effectiveness of an experimental middle school fraction intervention was evaluated. The
intervention was centered on the number line and incorporated key principles from the …

Spaced and interleaved practices have been identified as effective learning strategies which
sometimes are conflated as a single strategy and at other times treated as distinct. Learning …