Student Learning
How much do your students know about effective study strategies? Most students think they know what works, but their knowledge is anecdotal and experience based. Much research has been conducted on study strategies, with some ...
As instructors, we often assume that students must learn from us and no others. But feedback on performance is one of the most important factors to learning, and peer feedback can fill in the gaps ...
Consider this scenario: Two sections of an art history course taught by two different instructors. Both professors show slides of paintings—six paintings each by 12 different painters, a total of 72 paintings. Professor A shows ...
Class discussions present teachers with a number of different challenges, including the often limited number who participate, those who make comments but do so without having done the reading, and the many students who, as ...
Maybe we should be making a stronger pitch for student-led study groups. There’s all sorts of research documenting how students can learn from each other. But, as regularly noted here and elsewhere, that learning doesn’t ...
Here's a description that will resonate with many faculty: “Whole-class discussion often fell flat, so I shifted to heavier reliance on small-group discussion as a warm-up for talk in the larger group. This change got ...
The easier description of metacognition is “thinking about thinking.” To be metacognitive implies having knowledge of cognitive processes and having the ability to regulate them. In the case of students, that's knowing about study strategies, ...
It's a senior-level ecology course and one in which students must develop a research grant proposal. They do their first draft of the proposal after three days in the field and then that draft is ...
The definition of self-efficacy is straightforward: “a person's perception that he or she has the skill and capability to undertake a particular task.” (p. 1918) It's important to teachers because of its “consistent” and “demonstrable” ...
There's no question that students learn an enormous amount when they assume the role of teacher. That's why student presentations hold such great potential to enhance student ownership of the content. The problem is that ...
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