Dr. Jeri Little (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at California State University, East Bay, near Oakland, California. She has been teaching psychology at the college level for over eight years. Dr. Little earned her Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles in 2011.

Dr. Little specializes in research on multiple-choice quizzes, science learning, and individual differences in the strategies that students use to learn and what they learn as a result. Using methods from cognitive psychology, she focuses on issues relevant to educational practice, including those involving memory, knowledge representation, and metacognition. She regularly teaches Cognitive Processes, Laboratory in Cognitive Psychology, and Experimental Psychology.

Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals and promoted by the Huffington Post, Science Daily, and other media outlets.

Recommended research publication: Little, J. L., Bjork, E. L., Bjork, R. A., & Angello, G. (2012). Multiple-choice tests exonerated, at least of some charges: Fostering test-induced learning and avoiding test-induced forgetting. Psychological Science, 23(11), 1337-1344.