Newsletter Don't take away my algorithm! Lewandowsky et al. (2023) describe how humans are entangled with algorithms, and why social media and search engine transparency is so vital.
Newsletter We should be teaching students emotion regulation strategies, and not just in primary school. Beaumont et al. (2023) present promising evidence that secondary students would benefit from cognitive reappraisal strategy instruction.
Newsletter Students using AI: When is it a tool and when is it cheating? A cool new article by Tu et al. made me wonder about the future of AI in data science and education.
Newsletter A detente in the pedagogy wars? Let's hope so. de Jong and colleagues (2023) aren't here to bury direct instruction, but rather to praise it (under certain conditions).
Newsletter Do Conceptual Change Interventions in Biology Work? An extensive meta-analysis by Aleknavičiūtėa et al suggests yes, but there's more to the story.
Newsletter Replication failure can drive theory revision...really. John Sweller discusses how Cognitive Load Theory got better by failing, productively.
Newsletter Everyone is biased, except me. Ballantyne (2023) provides a synthesis of recent work on intellectual humility, including why it matters
Newsletter Yet more evidence for active learning pedagogies...this time in calculus Kramer et al (2023) conducted a compelling randomized controlled trial showing active learning pedagogies led to student gains in postsecondary calculus courses.
Newsletter Size matters? Science journalists pay attention to sample size when evaluating psychology research. Bottesini et al (2023) tested what affects science journalists' perceptions of the trustworthiness of psychology findings. But their exploratory findings were even more interesting, to me.
Newsletter You gotta start them young. Lee et al. (2023) have developed an effective domain-specific self-regulated learning intervention for elementary school students.
Newsletter Scientific Literacy is dead! Long live scientific literacy! Osbourne and Pimentel (2023) want us to think differently about scientific literacy.
Newsletter What do students need to know to recognize and combat science misinformation? Douglas Allchin (2022) has enunciated ten key competencies we should target in education.
Newsletter Weaponizing "do your own research" Francesca Tripodi and colleagues describe how bad actors can promote disinformation by getting people to participate in "verifying" the disinformation.
Newsletter Making children's mobile phones useful for learning New research demonstrates 5th graders benefit from a mobile app that prompts vocabulary studying.
Newsletter Bad news: There's no such thing as learning styles. Good news: You have ALL the learning styles!
Newsletter Article Titles I Adore Vol. 53: "ChatGPT is about as exciting as a Twinkie" In his latest article, Dr. Stephen Aguilar compares ChatGPT to a TV dinner.
Newsletter Why Models are More Important Than Replications Berna Devezer and Erkan Buzbas make a compelling case for a model-centric paradigm in psychology.
Newsletter Students learn best when educators remember the 4 Hs. The sciences of learning and development reveal why students learn best in contexts that support their Heart, Head, Health, and Home
Newsletter Does the higher education general education curriculum matter? Yes. New research by Orona et al make a strong case for the liberal arts.
Newsletter Education research should embrace open science. But let's be kind on the way there. Renbarger et al. make a good case for kindly and gently pushing authors to adopt open science practices.
Newsletter Grading rubrics - what are they good for? Real talk: the empirical evidence supports the (careful) use of grading rubrics.
Newsletter Silly Rabbit! Growth Mindset Interventions Are For Teachers! (Too) A new study suggests growth mindset interventions for teachers have a demonstrable effect on student learning.
Newsletter Okay, so how can AI be used to improve education? Hybrid Human-AI models show promise and are a model for reasonable use of AI in education.
Newsletter What if there was a way to help all students learn better and more efficiently? Making self-regulated learning skills a focus of K-12 education would help all students.
Newsletter Expertise matters. And AI isn't an expert. On anything. Research on expertise makes me skeptical of ChatGPT, etc.
