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TODD ZAKRAJSEK, Ph.D.919-636-8170
How Students Learn: Strategies for Teaching from
the Psychology of Learning
Sinclair Community College2012 Spring Conference
April 20, 2012
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF04XPBj5uc
Long-Term Potentiation
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What do you want your students to know or be able to do 5 years after graduation?
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Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
(Chickering & Gamson, 1996)
Contact between student and facultyDevelops reciprocity and cooperation
among studentsUses active learning techniquesPrompt feedbackTime on task (motivation to learn)Communicate high expectationsRespects diverse talents and ways of
knowing
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Hake (1998)
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Pashler, McDaniel, Rohrer, & Bjork, 2009
Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence
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Key Finding #1 – Bransford, et al.
Students have preconceptions about how the world works and if those preconceptions are not engaged, they may well fail to grasp and implement the new knowledge and concepts taught.
Caution: They may well learn a concept or demonstrate knowledge for a test and then revert to prior position once the class is over.
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Trial 1 Trial 3
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Mueller & Dweck, 1998
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Key Finding #2 – Bransford, et al.
To develop competence a person must acquire a deep foundation of factual knowledge, understand how the information is organized (conceptual framework), and be able to retrieve the information when needed.
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“Every beginning instructor discovers sooner or later that his first lectures were incomprehensible because he was talking to himself, so to say, mindful only of his point of view. He realizes only gradually and with difficulty that it is not easy to place one’s self in the shoes of students who do not yet know about the subject matter of the course.” Piaget (1962)
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Illusion of simplicity (including hindsight bias)
False consensus effect – overestimate that others think/feel the same as you do Curse of knowledge – tendency to NOT discount properly the fact that others don’t have relevant knowledge
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Karpicke & Roediger, 2007
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Flingledobe and Pribin (Lavoie, 1989)
Last Serny, Flingledobe and Pribin were in the Berdlink treppering gloopy caples and cleaming burly greps. Suddenly, a ditty strezzle boofed into Flingledobe’s tresk. Pribin glaped. “Oh Flingledobe,” he chifed, “that ditty strezzle is tunning in your grep!”
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Recht & Leslie (1988)It
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High Knowledge
Good Readers
Poor Readers
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Key Finding #3 – Bransford, et al.
Learners must be taught to take a metacognitive approach.
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Types of CATs
Minute Paper (check understanding at end of class session)
Muddiest Point (check understanding at end of class session)
One-Sentence Summary (check understanding at end of class session)
Directed Paraphrasing (check understanding of a concept)
Lecture Checks (Mazur’s Technique)Card Passing (very good for sensitive topics)
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Selected References
Bjork, R. A., & Linn, M. C. (2006, March). The Science of Learning and the Learning of Science: Introducing Desirable Difficulties. American Psychological Society Observer, 19, 29- 39. Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., & Cocking, R.R. (1999). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. Chickering, A., & Ehrmann, S. (1996). Implementing the seven principles: Technology as lever. AAHE Bulletin, October, 3-6. Goldstein, N. J., Cialdini, R. B., & Griskevicius, V. (2008). A room with a viewpoint: Using normative appeals to motivate environmental conservation in a hotel setting. Journal of Consumer Research, 35, 472-482. Halpern, D. F. & Hakel, M.D. (2002). Applying the science of learning to university teaching and beyond. New Directions in Teaching and Learning, 89. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Karpicke, J.D., & Roediger, H.L. (2007). Repeated retrieval during learning is the key to long-term retention. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 151-162.
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Selected References
Mueller, C.M. & Dweck, C.S. (1998). Intelligence praise can undermine motivation and performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 33-52. Pashler, H., McDaniel, M., Rohrer, D., & Bjork, R. (2009). Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 9 (3), 105-119. Available Online - http://psi.sagepub.com/content/9/3/105.full Recht, D.R., & Leslie, L. (1988). Effect of prior knowledge on good and poor readers’ memory of text. Journal of Educational Psychology, 80, 16 – 20. Wilson, T.D., Damiani, M. & Shelton, N. (2002). Improving the academic performance of college students with brief attributional interventions. In Joshua Aronson, Ed., Improving Academic Achievement: Impact of Psychological Factors on Education. (pp. 91-108). New York: Academic Press.