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.

Some students try frantically to write down everything their professor says in a lecture. Others take hardly any notes at all, planning instead to rely on the lecture outline or worse yet, their ...

Nine out of 10 students would “strongly prefer” or “somewhat prefer” to have in-person lectures that were also recorded, according to a survey by the UPP Foundation Student Futures Commission ...

With just a couple of weeks left in the semester, students are walking around campus zombie-like from sleep deprivation and the stresses of taking their final exams. To help students break the cycle ...

It’s never too late to set up a schedule, prepare for classes and find what works for you. Here are some study tips to help you succeed this semester. Get a head start before classes begin this week ...

My colleague Ben Dean and I recently conducted an Internet survey of 1464 adults interested in positive psychology that asked what they would most like to know about this new field. A large number ...