Student Learning and Assessments in the Age of AI
By Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel In May I attended an all-day ‘AI in Assessment’ workshop with a focus on Psychology degrees in Higher Education in London. Researchers from the UK and Ireland shared insights on students’ attitudes on AI, rethinking assessment approaches, and general considerations on navigating technological progress. I left the workshop thinking: I need to…
Time Management: What is it, who has it, and can you improve it? (Repost)
Time management can refer to a wide range of behaviors and can look very different from person to person. There are lots of different systems and approaches to time management. Making a to-do list, keeping a planner, setting event reminders in your phone, setting goals, prioritizing tasks, and marking events on a calendar can all…
Flipped Classrooms and Academic Achievement
By Megan SumerackiCover image by Tung Lam from PixabayThis fall, I’ll be teaching a course in Social Cognition. This course will be pretty different from what I’ve been teaching lately; the content area is not one that I am used to teaching, so I am excited to learn new things in preparation to teach the…
Thinking is Hard (repost)
Cover Image by Tima Miroshnichenko from PexelsBy Althea Need KaminskeThis week I had the opportunity to teach a guest lecture for medical students interested in AI in Medicine. In preparing for the talk I was, once again, struck by how challenging learning, and especially learning in medicine, can be. Many of the most effective study…
Retrieval Practice vs. Worked Examples: When to Use Which
Now the fun part… to make sure that participants didn’t have any background knowledge in the area, they were exposed to a new alien language and alien math where they had to figure out the rules. For example, in English you can add -ed to the end of a verb to make it past tense…
How Do Secondary Students Study, and Are Their Choices Related to Their Beliefs in...
*For the uninitiated, a Toniebox is a little speaker. They work with special figurines, called Tonies. The kids put a Tonie on the box and it starts playing whatever is loaded. Some read stories, some play music, and some are like little screen-free “shows” that teach the kids about concepts and sing. By the way,…
Self-Regulating Motivation and Emotion During Learning
Throughout the paper, Stockinger et al. (2026) highlight the interplay between motivational regulation and emotional regulation and call for a model of self-regulated learning that acknowledges how closely interwoven the two can be. An aspect of this work that I find really interesting is the emphasis on how the learner perceives the process. Is the…
GUEST POST: What’s Missing in Professional Development and Educator Preparation
References:1. Gallup (2024, February 1). Overworked and undervalued: Retaining top educators. https://www.gallup.com/education/609422/overworked-undervalued-retaining-top-educators.aspx2. Steiner, E. D., Levine, P. R., Doan, S., & Woo, A. (2025). Teacher well-being, pay, and intentions to leave in 2025: Findings from the State of the American Teacher Survey (Research Report No. RRA1108-16). RAND. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1108-16.html3. Aldeman, C. (2024, July 30). Where are…
A Framework for Student Performance
As one example, maybe a student tends to overthink questions and often selects the wrong question. One strategy students can use is to rate each answer choice from -3 to +3 based on the evidence they have to support it. If they have a lot of evidence against an answer choice, they would rate it…
GUEST POST: Using Knowledge Organizers as Effective Study Tools (Repost)
Then self-quizzing activity involves students reading the one section of the knowledge organizer, covering it up, and then writing it out from memory [a note from the editor: this activity might be even more effective if there is a gap between reading and retrieving!]. They then uncover the information and check it against what they…
