Humans and most other animals are known to be strongly driven by expected rewards or adverse consequences. The process of ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Many people, myself included, are “freedom” learners. We tend not to thrive in formal ...

The effects of three interventions designed to boost academic achievement among mastery-oriented students were evaluated on interest-based studying, social desirability, and perceived goal difficulty.

In classrooms across the country, students are mastering their ABCs, solving equations, and diving into science. But one essential life skill–behavior–is not in the lesson plan. For too long, ...

Big data in education promotes access to the analysis of learning behavior, yielding many valuable analysis results. However, with obscure and insufficient guidelines commonly followed when applying ...

Assessing student learning effectively is often complicated by relying on ambiguous proxies such as grades, quiz scores, or assumptions about students' internal states, such as what they feel, think, ...

Alan Bain has undertaken research on technology and learning over the last twenty years during which time he has received funding from a range of government, non-government, and philanthropic sources.

In education, as in psychology, clarity matters. Yet in everyday conversations about teaching and learning, terms like learning theory and pedagogy are often used interchangeably. Phrases such as “We ...

Human memory is a notoriously multitiered phenomenon. When you recall a moment, you might think of a constellation of details — sounds, sights, and feelings. This implies that experiences are stored ...

The Learning Behavior Specialist 1 (LBS1) endorsement qualifies already licensed teachers to teach in a special education setting for students in kindergarten through age 22. For those seeking initial ...