By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. The following is a complete guide to learning styles. I have written a lot about learning styles on this blog, and this guide serves as a central hub to direct you to the specific learning style resources that you’re looking for. …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This post offers 36 ideas for how to create a study space that’s awesome. Some tips are better suited for college or university students, and some are for middle and high school students. Some tips will help you design your personal …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This is Part 3 of a 3-part series about creating a work or study space according to your learning style. Part 1 was about designing an optimal working environment for visual learners and Part 2 was about creating a study space …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This is part 2 of a 3-part series about creating a work space or remote learning study space according to your learning style. Part 1 was about designing an optimal working environment for visual learners, while this post focuses on how …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This is Part 1 in a 3-part series about how to create a remote learning study space based on your learning style: visual, auditory or kinesthetic. Check out Part 2 about study spaces for auditory learners, and Part 3 (kinesthetic)! …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Spaced repetition is a study method that involves reviewing material repeatedly over various intervals of time. It is easily one of the best study methods known, especially when used in combination with active recall. Most students study using the opposite principles …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. With some rare exceptions, the primary reason for bad test grades is that you didn’t know the material well enough. Before you shut me down, please hear me out. I know the test was hard. I know the teacher is mean. …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. At some point or another, all students will find themselves cramming for a test. Whether it’s bad time management or simply more tasks than time, these things sometimes just happen. But that’s not the goal. The goal is to do better. …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Part of my job as a study skills expert and executive functioning coach is to stay current on the research around learning. Once in a while, I come across bogus study advice that is not only funny, but that does more …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. In a recent YouTube video I made about the Feynman Technique, I briefly spoke about the blurting method as a study strategy. Since then, I’ve been asked to talk more about how to use the blurting method to study. In this …
