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 …
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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.
To Prompt or Not To Prompt: Effects of Prompt-Questions and Educational Videos on Learning
Educational videos are often used in the classroom setting to support instruction of content. On the positive side, these videos can help scaffolding a topic which can lead to better understanding of it. They can also increase situational interest in students because...
Digest #176: For When You're Feeling the Pressure!
Right now it is mid September. At Rhode Island College we’re wrapping up week 4 of the Fall 2024 semester. Where is the time going?! It feels like everything is happening so quickly, and keeping up has been challenging for me. Talking with my colleagues this week, I learned I’m not the only one “feeling the pressure.” ...
About our "Office Hours" Videos AND a Paper about How Students Cope with Anxiety from Active Learning Practices
Last month, I put out an “Office Hours Video” on Patreon about a paper investigating how undergraduates cope with anxiety in intro biology courses. What is an “Office Hours Video”, you ask? They are special “thank yous” for our Patreon supporters. Our blog, podcast, and downloadable materials …
Handwritten versus Typed Note-Taking Effects on College Students' Performance
There is an ongoing debate on whether students should take notes on their laptops (typed) or by putting pen to paper (handwritten). We have blogged about this topic in the past and presented papers that found…