Author and Principal of the Vancouver Learning Centre
Geraldine Schwartz PhD, MA, BA
Registered Psychologist
Member of the Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology (CRHSPP)
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To Test or Not to Test
New Research on brain function in the emerging field of Educational Neuroscience is linking memory (the essential result of learning) to intense and targetted educational experiences. Because testing is one of these experiences the new research provides an answer to the question of: "To test or not to test?"
This question is of great importance to students, parents, teachers and educational policy makers. For many years there has been ongoing disagreement between and among all of these groups concerning the importance and usefulness of testing in schools.
In this article we report on new research in brain function that provides evidence about how testing benefits learning to mastery of essential skills in reading and math. The research addresses how a learner acquires functional use of knowledge that allows him or her to answer both questions of fact and inferential questions, in which facts are used to infer, to think abstractly, and to build knowledge platforms for continuous growth in the subject matter under consideration.
These issues are of great importance in our work at the Vancouver Learning Centre where we focus on giving students the knowledge platforms they need for ongoing life success. To learn more about the research findings and their implications for children, youth and young adults. Read more.
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What Makes Us Unique
For more than three decades the Vancouver Learning Centre has been providing a unique educational service in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. What makes us special is the way we provide and combine services specifically focused on achieving the best possible outcome for our students.
The Vancouver Learning Centre offers a full service package to our clients consisting of a neuropsychological and educational assessment, rehabilitation program design, and one-to-one teaching services to the whole range of learners from the severely challenged to the gifted.
We invite you to read more in order to explore the features that make us unique and to contact us to discuss how we can help you.
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