Today is (American) Thanksgiving so I wanted to take the opportunity to thank our community! 2022 has been challenging and we are so grateful for the continued support, encouragement, and contributions of our community…
Digest #167: Should we give up on growth mindset?
Recently, two new meta-analyses were published analyzing growth mindset interventions. It is not our goal to create a conversation about the relative merits of these studies, but rather to revisit the important question surrounding when and how growth mindset interventions should be undertaken.
Self-Regulated Learning and Personality
studying can be complicated! Improving students’ knowledge and understanding of effective strategies would certainly be helpful - we’ve spent the last year writing a book hoping to do just that! - but it is only one component of effective studying and learning. When students are tasked with making choices about their learning a number of cognitive, motivational, behavioral, and contextual factors come into play. The suite of skills learners use to handle those factors is referred to as self-regulated learning (1).
Digest #166: Perfectionism in Education
“Perfection is the opposite of done!” I came across this statement recently and it made me think about how perfectionism really affects one’s work and studying. Growing up, I always thought of perfectionism as a good thing, as something to aspire to. However, more recently I am questioning this thought…
When Revising, Read Out Loud
Very frequently, I give writers (my students) the advice that they should read their work out loud while revising. I give this advice because it helps me to catch errors in writing, but I did not have evidence to back up my advice… until now.
GUEST POST: Transformational Learning & Reflection: 3 Keys for Medical Educators
What do you think of when you hear the word “reflection”? Introspection? Done in the moment or retroactively? Something done by yourself or with others? Reflection, as a pedagogical strategy, is utilized widely in education. It is a critical component of many educational theories, especially Transformational Learning.