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Teaching Social Psychology Effectively
Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another – a subfield of psychology that began more...
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Is drawing after learning effective for metacognitive monitoring only when supported by spatial scaffolds?
In this study, we investigated whether drawing after learning supports metacognitive monitoring especially when students are supported in their...
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Uninformative anchoring effect in judgments of learning
This experimental study examined whether the uninformative anchoring effect, which should be ignored, on judgments of learning (JOLs) was eliminated...
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Assessment of Learning in Psychology
Summative assessment practices reveal whether students ultimately are successful in learning what we teach. In this chapter, we explore current...
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Ideologies of Interculturality: Building Up Awareness of the Predatory and Falsely Critical
The focus of this chapter is ideologies. This important and yet controversial concept can help us deconstruct and rethink interculturality. An...
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Transforming ESL Pedagogies: A Teacher’s Journey from Subject-Centered to Student-Centered Pedagogy When Teaching Print Literacy to SLIFE
In recent years, there has been a large influx of refugees into resettlement countries worldwide. In Canada, this displaced population includes many...
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Introductory Medical Spanish Elective: Creating and Evaluating a Case-Based Course Compatible with an 18-Month Pre-Clinical Medical Curriculum
BackgroundLimited English proficiency patients experience high rates of medical errors and receive lower quality of care. To better prepare the...
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Evaluating pre-service teachers’ statistical literacy capabilities
In recent years, numeracy has had an increasing focus in the Australian educational system, with policies and assessments in place for both students...
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Leveraging Intercultural Social Media-Type Platforms to Promote Historical Consciousness and Historical Understanding Among Young People: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges
How might we promote the development of young people’s historical consciousness and historical understanding by taking advantage of contemporary...
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Supporting knowledge monitoring ability: open learner modeling vs. open social learner modeling
Research has demonstrated that people generally think both their knowledge and performance levels are greater than they are. Although several studies...
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Fostering Integrated STEM and Entrepreneurial Mindsets Through Design Thinking
Design thinkingDesign thinking refers to cognitive processes and design abilities that help designers develop solutions for human-centered problems....
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Everyone Teaches Ethics: An Embedded Approach to Ethics Education
A review of university mission statements reveals a commitment to graduating ethical students. The question becomes how to create curricula and...
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Individualism and collectivism’s impact on students’ academic hel** interactions: an integrative review
In academic settings, help-seeking and help-giving are two learning behaviors that have been shown to support student interaction and success....
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Revisiting Picture Functions in Multimedia Testing: A Systematic Narrative Review and Taxonomy Extension
Studies have indicated that pictures in test items can impact item-solving performance, information processing (e.g., time on task) and metacognition...
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Opting Out as an Untapped Resource in Instructional Design: Review and Implications
When faced with challenging thinking tasks accompanied by a feeling of uncertainty, people often prefer to opt out (e.g., replying “I don’t know”,...
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Looking at Mental Effort Appraisals through a Metacognitive Lens: Are they Biased?
A central factor in research guided by the Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) is the mental effort people invest in performing a task. Mental effort is...
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The 3-D Skills Model: a Randomised Controlled Pilot Study Comparing a Novel 1–1 Near-Peer Teaching Model to a Formative OSCE with Self-regulated Practice
IntroductionNear-peer teaching is a popular pedagogical teaching tool, with well-recognised benefits for students and tutors. There are multiple...
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Tests and academic cheating: do learning tasks influence cheating by way of negative evaluations?
Desirable difficulties like tests were often shown to increase long-term learning. However, due to the complexity and difficulty of such tasks, they...
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Medical Student Personality Traits and Clinical Grades in the Internal Medicine Clerkship
BackgroundThird year clerkship grades include subjective evaluations. The purpose of this study is to identify if personality traits and self-esteem...
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Effects of related decorative pictures on learning and metacognition
Research suggests that explanatory pictures support learning, whereas pictures that distract processing resources from the main ideas of a text may...
