The authors unpack the science of how students learn and translate that knowledge into strategies for maximum learning impact in the classroom. Learning principles addressed include: motivation, attention, elaborate encoding, retrieval and practice, cognitive load, productive struggle, and feedback. Learning strategies addressed include: goal setting, integrating prior knowledge, summarizing, mapping, self-testing, and elaborative interrogation.
Reviewed by Carol Campbell, PhD
Vice President for Education
Southwestern Union Conference
Author: Pete Nelson, with a preface by Hunter Scott (the 11-year-old who inspired the book and whose research informs the book)
