Last week, I wrote a blog post that ended with a data prediction cliffhanger. I asked readers to predict how question difficulty order on a test might affect students’ evaluations of their own performance on that test.
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Things are going well for you as a college student. You like your classes, you’ve made new friends and, because you’re reading this blog, you realize you’re well-prepared for the workload of college. That is, until you find out you must do group work
How Does Question Difficulty Order Affect Evaluations of Test Performance?
If we want to improve student learning, we also need to worry about students' attunement with their own memory performance. That is, if students can't gauge how well they did on a test, they're going to have more trouble preparing adequately for the next one.
Online Learning may not be Ideal for All Students
With advances in technology, the use of online and hybrid (partially online and partially in person) classes has increased. There seems to be a lot of excitement around different course formats that are available, with some institutions even pushing for more and more …
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Weekly Digest #106: Learning to Manage Your Own Finances
We often talk about the big transition from high school to college in terms of becoming an independent learner. But for many students, this transition means learning to become more independent in other ways, too. College is a time when many students have to learn to manage their own finances …