Today I want to share with you a framework that I use to talk to students about their exam performance. This framework can be applied to any situation in which a person is being assessed on the spot.
Can We Teach Critical Thinking (repost)
As AI and social media become, somehow, even more ubiquitous, I find myself having more and more conversations about critical thinking. The ability to think critically remains as relevant as ever, so here is re-post from 2019 examining what critical thinking is and whether it can be taught or improved.
GUEST POST: Using Knowledge Organizers as Effective Study Tools (Repost)
One of my approaches to teaching (and to work in general) is to impose organization and structure for my students. It helps to decrease uncertainties, but it also makes tackling tasks more efficient and manageable…
GUEST POST: How Risk Measures Shape Public Understanding of Science
News and media headlines seem to be filled with hope and dread these days, with fast-spreading articles with bold claims of new research that proves a miraculous outcome of a new treatment or an increased change in harm linked to …
"Blips" of Knowledge Reduce Accuracy and Increase Confidence
What do you do when you get a random new physiological symptom? The study I’m reviewing today looks specifically at how short pieces of information impact our confidence in our knowledge and our accuracy…
Retrieval Practice and Stress (repost)
I recently remembered this post about retrieval practice and stress. I was talking to one of my students about retrieval practice and stress, and went back to the blog to help me remember some aspects of the research. Upon seeing the …