Improving Student Test Scores Using Brain-Based LearningEvery human being can learn. Brain-based learning offers a new direction for educators seeking more focused and informed teaching. This paper will present information on how brain-based learning works. Additionally, the article will discuss how brain-based learning is improving students' test scores. Furthermore, the paper will provide research findings on the benefits of brain-based learning. Creating stress-free environments, improving complex cognitive skills, and understanding memory become important in brain-based learning. Receiving, encoding, storing and retrieving information makes sense as memory paths are defined. Evaluating student learning becomes the simple task of accessing the same methods used for teaching. After all, the more we understand the brain, the better we will be able to educate it. Definition of Brain-Based LearningBrain-based learning is the informed learning process of using a group of practical strategies guided by sound principles derived from brain research. Brain-based education is abbreviated to three words: “commitment, strategies, and principles” (Jensen, 2008 p.4). It's about learning in accordance with how the brain is naturally designed to learn. So the goal of brain-based education is to try to bring insight from brain research into education to elevate teaching and learning. While brain research includes neuroscience studies that investigate patterns of cellular enhancement in various areas of the brain; and brain imaging techniques that include functional MRI scans and positron emission tomography scans that allow scientists to examine patterns of waking and thinking activity in the middle of the paper. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Jensen, E. (1998). Teaching with the brain in mind. Alexandria, Virginia. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Jensen, E. (2008). Brain-Based Learning: The New Teaching Paradigm (2nd Edition).Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.Kotulak, R. (1996). Inside the brain: Revolutionary discoveries about how the mind works. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing. Teaching responsibility. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://faculty.fullerton.edu/lorozco/stlec-instacct.htmlLackney, JA(nd). 12 design principles based on brain-based learning research. Retrieved from http://www.designshare.com/Research/BrainBasedleran98.htm)Fodor, J. (1999, September). Diary. London Book Review, 21(19), Retrieved from http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n19/jerry-fodor/diary