Peter C. Brown

Make It Stick was written with two cognitive scientists, Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel, and its argument is that the study techniques students trust most are the least effective.

Rereading and massed practice feel productive because they are fluent. Retrieval practice, spacing and interleaving feel harder and are what actually build durable memory, and the discomfort is the signal that learning is happening.

Brown was a novelist rather than a researcher, brought in to make the findings readable, which is why the book is usable by the students it is about.