Modern classrooms are filled with the language of cognitive science. We talk about student engagement, working memory, attention, mindset, and cognitive load as if we can observe these things ...

If you’ve walked across a parking lot toward the kiosk, repeating your license plate number under your breath, only to have to turn back to your car and refresh your memory because an ambulance drove ...

Two prominent theories—Desirable Difficulties (DDF) and Cognitive Load Theory (CLT)—offer valuable frameworks for understanding how we learn and retain information. A recent pape r has ...