Blog Post on 2017 STEM FIT Symposium Plenary: Applying Cognitive Science

In a post on Saint Louis University’s Reinert Center blog, Christopher Grabau, PhD describes Mark McDaniel’s talk at the 2017 STEM FIT Symposium on the cognitive science principles that may be applied to improve learning: repetition and interleaving, retrieval practice, and explanatory questioning. McDaniel is a professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences and co-Director of the Center for Integrative Research on Cognition, Learning, and Education (CIRCLE) at Washington University.

Grabau is an instructional developer at the Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning. His blog post was recently reproduced in the Faculty Focus newsletter.