All in Learning Scientists Posts
The study I’m reviewing today took place in the laboratory, but examined a common situation in the classroom that might matter: note-taking. If students are able to take notes while learning, does that change the degree to which interleaving helps them?
In my last blog, I wrote about cognitive networks and implicit bias. The gist of the post was that our systems allow us to categorize and generalize, flexibly and automatically, and that this generally helps us. For example, we have some general rules …
I’m currently preparing teaching for the upcoming academic year. One focus for me has been student self-regulated learning and time management skills. So, as I’m developing resources for students and designing the curriculum, I refer to research to understand students’ motivations to pick up and stick with effective learning strategies. Today’s post is a previously published blog post that has helped me make strategic educational decisions.…
While we have our own internal and correlational data that allows me to cautiously allow students to skip the lecture, here we have experimental data that actually says skipping the lecture might be better for my students. Spoiler alert: it’s not that simple.
As a cognitive psychology professor, I teach about cognitive networks and how we process, organize, and respond to the world around us. We are able to quickly and flexibly process and categorize items around us, understanding what they are and …
