The 'pretesting' effect in action In learning science, this "guessing-then-feedback" approach is known as pretesting. Learners attempt an answer before they have fully learned the material and then ...

Healing brains is a job for medical personnel. If you need brain surgery, you need a surgeon. You wouldn’t let your therapist, priest, or marriage counselor poke around in there. But what, for example ...

When it comes to foraging sales racks for deals or sharing my opinion when asked, I’m pretty decisive and straightforward — I know what I want and I know what I want to say. But when it comes to ...

For years, the SAT was scored in a manner that discouraged students from guessing. Omitted questions were not counted, and a quarter of a point was deducted for each wrong answer. The College Board’s ...

If there’s one thing Freud got right, it’s that there’s a whole lot more going on under the hood than we thought. Since Freud, it’s become ever-clearer that our behavior and emotions are not under the ...

It’s hard to tell if students really know the answer or are guessing, which is why one university is scrapping multiple-choice exams. Shutterstock Multiple-choice questions have become one of the ...