This fall, I’ll be teaching a course in Social Cognition. This course will be pretty different from what I’ve been teaching lately; the content area is not one that I am used to teaching, so I am excited to learn new things in preparation to teach …
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Thinking is Hard (repost)
This week I had the opportunity to teach a guest lecture for medical students interested in AI in Medicine. In preparing for the talk I was, once again, struck by how challenging learning, and especially learning in medicine, can be.
Retrieval Practice vs. Worked Examples: When to Use Which
Today I’m reviewing a study that directly compared two effective learning strategies (retrieval practice and worked examples) on their usefulness for generalizing knowledge (transfer).
How Do Secondary Students Study, and Are Their Choices Related to Their Beliefs in Achievement?
Lately, my preschool-aged daughter has been listening to one of her Tonies* that she calls “Positive Hippo”. *For the uninitiated, a Toniebox is a little speaker. They work with special figurines, called Tonies. The kids put a Tonie on the box and it starts playing …
Self-Regulating Motivation and Emotion During Learning
Self-regulated learning is a cyclical process of forethought, performance, and self-reflection that allows a learner to regulate their learning (1). While a number of cognitive processes, particularly metacognitive processes, are involved in self-regulated learning, a learner’s ability to assess and regulate their motivational and emotional state can heavily influence their self-regulation of their learning.
A Framework for Student Performance
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.