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Improving College Student Outcomes with Course Policies that Support Autonomy (Part 2)
Last week, my blog post covered a paper by Simon Cullen and Daniel Oppenheimer. Their paper is titled Choosing to Learn: The Importance of Student Autonomy in Higher Education. In their paper, they present two studies.
The first study, covered in Part 1, was a randomized controlled…
Improving College Student Outcomes with Course Policies that Support Autonomy (Part 1)
In today’s post, I want to share a cool, relatively new paper by Simon Cullen and Daniel Oppenheimer from Science Advances (1). The paper is titled, Choosing to Learn: The Importance of Student Autonomy in Higher Education. The methodology is …
Digest #177: Podcast Episodes for Parents and Educators
I have been following Brown University Professor and Economist Emily Oster for a number of years, basically ever since I started my journey of becoming a parent. Now, I listen to her podcast and read her newsletters (and the newsletters from the endocrinologist on her team, called “Hot Flash”) to hear from Emily and experts on data-driven parenting. I also …
GUEST POST: Can Gamified Technology Be Used to Enhance Students’ Intrinsic Motivation?
Technology is increasingly transforming the way students engage with learning materials. One prominent use of technology in education is gamification, where game-like elements are applied to non-game environments to enhance engagement and motivation...
Spacing and Retrieval Practice in Health Professions
In this review the Trumble and colleagues sought to better understand how spacing and retrieval practice are used in health professions education and whether these strategies led to improvements in academic grades.