The research behind the questions.
LearnSmartly builds on well-established research into how people learn: how they judge their own understanding, how feelings and pressure affect them, how they take in information, how they learn from others, and what motivates them.
Five areas of research behind the questions
Knowing what you know
How people judge what they've understood, notice when they're stuck, and change their approach.
Feelings and resilience
How confidence, mood and pressure affect attention, staying power, and putting learning to use.
Taking in information
How attention and memory shape what people can hold and learn at one time.
Learning from other people
How the people around us, and what we see them do, shape how we learn and behave.
Motivation
What makes people put the effort in, keep going and stay interested.
The research above backs the ideas we build on: how people judge their own understanding, how much they can hold at once, how feelings affect learning, how they learn from others, and what motivates them.
LearnSmartly turns those ideas into its own questionnaire. It is informed by the research; it is not a clinical or psychological test. We treat the results as useful information for deciding on timing, order and support — not as a way of deciding who deserves development.