The use of science to inform learning and development can have profound results for children, particularly those in their first few years of life. So say the experts—among them Randa Grob-Zakhary, a ...

The Institute for Learning Sciences will provide an infrastructure for research and training testbeds in three key impact areas.

These two metanalyses (which were informed by the Science of Learning and Development interdisciplinary working group supported in part by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, whose education work I ...

There are many reasons to be curious about the way people learn, and the past several decades have seen an explosion of research that has important implications for individual learning, schooling, ...

Thought experiments can have some advantages over real experiments: they require no special equipment, are low-cost, can be ...

In 2012, the National Academies report A Framework for K-12 Science Education outlined a broad set of expectations for students based on a rich body of research on teaching and learning in science.

This work complements the psychological research on child development that is the principal focus of the LIFE Center. Both have been funded as part of the NSF’s Science of Learning initiative.

For more than a decade, my community of Indian River County, Florida, has committed itself to ensuring that 90% of students ...

"Learning is a way of life in organizations," says Eduardo Salas, a psychological scientist from the University of Central Florida. "Everyone gets training. But what matters? What works? What ...

Learning science models provide valuable insights, but in their most basic form, they fail to accomplish the goals that L&D departments hope to achieve.