3 Lessons from How We Learn by Benedict Carey

I just finished reading Benedict Carey’s book, How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens.

Here are the the three biggest lessons I learned about learning from the book:

1) Pre-testing is a form of learning.

As a teacher and even now as someone who works with teachers, I looked at testing in the wrong way. I always saw it as a way to assess student comprehension. I didn’t see it as a form of learning in itself.

This is particularly true of pre-testing. A test for...