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The Benefits of Longhand Notetaking Versus Slide Annotations
From own experience as a lecturer and sitting in student-staff-forum meetings where students report what is going well and what needs to be improved, I know that there is one topic that comes to haunt us in every meeting: Provision of lecture slides before the lecture…
GUEST POST: How Do I Start to Think about Graduate School?!?
Applying for graduate school can be an intimidating experience for anyone, especially if you don’t know what to expect. As someone who recently went through the process (and was accepted into a clinical mental health counseling program!), I am excited to share …
Weekly Digest #110: Creativity in Unlikely Places
Ideas related to creativity pop up throughout this blog: we discuss how retrieval practice and spacing can actually increase creativity; how creative problem solving can benefit from sleep, and how to develop creative critical thinking skills.
How Does Question Difficulty Order Affect Evaluations of Test Performance? (Part 2)
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.
GUEST POST: Collaborative Inhibition
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