Curriculum·Graduate·G702
Pedagogical Fundamentals
Kornell and Bjork, Psychological Science, 2008. Participants studied six paintings by each of twelve artists, some artists' works presented consecutively and some interleaved with other artists', then were tested on attributing new paintings to the artists.
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Improving Students' Learning With Effective Learning Techniques, 2013
John Dunlosky, Katherine Rawson, Elizabeth Marsh, Mitchell Nathan and Daniel Willingham reviewed ten learning techniques for Psychological Science in the Public Interest in January 2013, limited to techniques students could use without assistance, some included because students report using them frequently, and rated each on whether its benefits generalized across learning conditions, students, materials and criterion tasks. Five were rated low utility: summarization, highlighting, the keyword mnemonic, imagery for text learning and rereading. Rereading and highlighting are the ones most students report using; they do not consistently boost performance, and highlighting may hurt on higher-level tasks that require inference.
The lessons
- G702-01Retrieval and spacing, against the feeling of learningState which study techniques the 2013 review rated low utility and which high, and why the ones students use most are the ones that work leastabout 32 min · opens on Improving Students' Learning With Effective Learning Techniques, 2013
- G702-02Metacognition: teaching people to know what they knowDescribe the 2008 experiment in which learners rated the worse technique as better after seeing their own results, and state why the judgment resisted the evidenceabout 32 min · opens on Learning Concepts and Categories: Is Spacing the Enemy of Induction? 2008
- G702-03Worked examples and cognitive loadState what the 1985 algebra experiments found about studying worked examples against solving equivalent problems, and where the effect stoppedabout 32 min · opens on The Use of Worked Examples as a Substitute for Problem Solving in Learning Algebra, 1985
- G702-04Transfer: from a passed quiz to a changed decisionState what the 401(k) seminar study found about the gap between intention and action, with the figureabout 32 min · opens on Defined Contribution Pensions: Plan Rules, Participant Choices, and the Path of Least Resistance, 2002