How Students Fool Themselves
Stephen L. Chew
May 19, 2025
If you’ve taught for any length of time, you’ve probably heard this or gotten similar messages multiple times from students. The bottom line is that
If you’ve taught for any length of time, you’ve probably heard this or gotten similar messages multiple times from students. The bottom line is that
Teachers focus on developing students’ conscious learning and understanding of concepts, but there is a whole other dimension of mental life that teachers also influence:
I’ve taught a course in statistics for psychological research for almost 40 years. No student becomes a psych major because they get to take statistics,
What is the best way for teachers to develop student expertise in a subject area? Currently, there are two competing schools of thought. One school,
Active learning is a mostly meaningless educational buzzword. It’s a feel-good, intuitively popular term that indicates concern for student learning and success, but at some
Like millions of people, I play Wordle each day in The New York Times. If you are unfamiliar, Wordle is a logic game in which
Students often underestimate how much study time is required to master course concepts for an exam (Chew, 2014). Weaker students in particular tend to be
Do people learn in the same way or different ways? According to cognitive science, the answer is the former. There are general principles of learning
It’s hard to determine just how well students understand the concepts we teach. Our usual criterion for understanding is that students give a correct answer
This essay covers student learning, misconceptions, search engines, and AI, but first a story to set the context. Most every academic discipline has an organization
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