Psych 101 was about to start, and Pam Mueller had forgotten her laptop at home. This meant more than lost Facebook time. A psychology grad student at Princeton, Mueller was one of the class teaching ...

Logic would suggest that lecturing to students in a clear, fluid style while making frequent eye contact would engage students and aid in their learning. At the very least, many people would assume, ...

A new study suggests that giving students pertinent visual information, such as a diagram or outline, at the start of a lesson will lead to better understanding of that lesson. The study, by Mark A.

Dust off those Bic ballpoints and college-ruled notebooks: research shows that taking notes by hand is better than taking notes on a laptop for remembering conceptual information over the long term.

Handwriting might be a lost art, but educators should make sure it lives on in the classroom. According to a new study , Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University and UCLA Los Angeles ...

Zero tolerance policies in schools actually end up promoting misbehavior, according to a new study. And despite its widespread use, there is little evidence to back up the use of a zero tolerance ...

As laptops become smaller and more ubiquitous, and with the advent of tablets, the idea of taking notes by hand just seems old-fashioned to many students today. Typing your notes is faster — which ...

One of the biggest studies of its kind to date has concluded that although the introduction of lecture capture does lead to reduced class attendance, academics must accept that students see it as a ...