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Description: Are you a college instructor who wants to improve your students' study skills? If so, consider participating in this investigation designed to teach students, through a brief online experience, that self-testing is a more effective study strategy than is restudying. Involvement on your end is minimal and would be incredibly helpful in validating this important educational tool. Read on to find out more about this project. Students often engage in study strategies that do not align with the recommendations of psychological research. This investigation seeks to ameliorate this suboptimal study strategy problem through the use of a novel online intervention. In brief, students are exposed to the testing effect (the memory benefits of practice testing) and are guided through the process of implementing positive behavioral change. We seek college instructors who are enthused by the prospect of improving student study strategies to empirically validate its educational effectiveness in the Spring 2018 semester. For more information, please see the Wiki or contact Adam Young at adam.p.young@colorado.edu.