Educational Psychology

Feedback processing is the sequence of mental steps a learner goes through after receiving feedback: noticing it, understanding what it

Deliberate practice principles describe a specific, effortful way of practicing that targets weaknesses, uses clear goals, and relies on feedback,

Practice and consolidation work as a partnership: practice creates new memory traces, and consolidation is the slower process by which

Declarative knowledge building is the gradual process of acquiring facts, definitions, concepts, and explanations that a learner can consciously recall

Procedural learning skills are the abilities that let a learner turn a sequence of steps into a routine they can

Automaticity in performance is the state in which a skill runs quickly, accurately and with little conscious effort. A fluent

Skill acquisition stages describe the path a learner travels from the first clumsy attempt at a new skill to smooth,

Cognitive prerequisites are the pieces of knowledge and mental skill that a new task quietly depends on. Solving a simple

Activation of background knowledge is one of the quiet engines of reading comprehension. When readers meet a passage about a

Prior knowledge activation is the deliberate step of bringing what learners already know to the front of their minds before