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Brain Breaks for Improved Learning

Physical training involves two fundamental phases: a stress phase, where muscles are exercised to fatigue, and a rest phase, where the body repairs the damage of the stress to become stronger. A common mistake among athletes is to forgo the rest phase by working out

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How Much Do Students Have to Study to Learn a Concept?

Students often underestimate how much study time is required to master course concepts for an exam (Chew, 2014). Weaker students in particular tend to be grossly overconfident about how quickly they can learn. As a result, many students wait too long to begin studying for

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Audiobooks

I didn’t always offer full-throated endorsements of audiobooks in my literature courses. Maybe that’s because I’m not really an audiobook person. Call me old-fashioned, but I’ve always preferred to engage in real reading than outsource the job to some random celebrity voice actor.

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Probing Student Understanding

It’s hard to determine just how well students understand the concepts we teach. Our usual criterion for understanding is that students give a correct answer on an exam, but that leaves much to be desired (Uminski et al., 2024). In multiple-choice exams, the student may

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Is Mindfulness Meditation Actually Beneficial in Higher Education?

Over the past two decades, there has been an increasing interest among researchers in studying meditation-based interventions with college students. Historically high rates of psychological distress and mental health challenges on campuses have colleges and universities pressed to handle demands and provide adequate services. As

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