Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool are co-authors of the new book, Peak: Secrets From The New Science Of Expertise. They graciously agreed to answer several of my questions. LF: Much has been written - ...

How do we make students more active in their learning? In today's Academic Minute, part of Penn State University Week, Bill Goffe explores this question. Goffe is a teaching professor of economics at ...

In the late 1970s, Anders Ericsson devised a very boring experiment. His subject, Steve Faloon, was instructed to memorize random strings of numbers. Ericsson’s interest was in how many numbers Steve ...

Today on the Academic Minute, part of Penn State University Week: Bill Goffe, teaching professor of economics, explores how to make students more active in their learning. Learn more about the ...

AS DOES much else in the universe, education moves in cycles. The 1960s and 1970s saw a swell of interest in teaching styles that were less authoritarian and hierarchical than the traditional watching ...

To determine if deliberate practice and simulation would improve pediatric residents’ neonatal resuscitation abilities. PL-1 equipment score increased by 30% (I-Pre; 53%, I-Post; 83%) and was not ...

How long does it take to become elite at your craft? And what do the people who master their goals do differently than the rest of us? That’s what John Hayes, a cognitive psychology professor at ...

As a teenager in Sweden, Anders Ericsson used to play chess against one of his classmates, a boy considerably worse at the game than Ericsson. Every time they'd play, Ericsson would trounce him. Then ...

In prior lessons we learned some of the key principles of memorization: Lesson 1: encoding, consolidation, retrieval, reconsolidation Lesson 2: getting motivated Lesson 3: paying attention Lesson 8: ...