Promoting confidence in Earth Sciences
How do feelings and emotions affect your learning?
The Promoting Confidence in Earth Sciences website provides lessons designed to increase student success with quantitative aspects of geoscience classes. Confidence and other emotions are part of something called the affective domain and can negatively or positively affect student learning. The lessons found here provide an exploration of the affective domain and practical actions that have a positive influence on learning. There are opportunities to practice these actions and skills, and you can apply these ideas to how you learn best.
What lessons are available?
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Confidence and Learning
This lesson will explain how your own confidence can help (or hurt) your learning. -
Metacognition and Learning
This lesson will explain how planning, monitoring, and evaluating your studying and learning are skills that you can develop and are critical to success in the classroom. -
Math Anxiety and Learning
This lesson will explain how math anxiety affects your learning. -
Interest and Learning
This lesson will explain how your interest in a topic can help (or hurt) your learning. -
Stereotypes and Learning
This lesson will explain how your stereotypes affect your learning. -
Goals and Learning
This lesson will explain how setting goals can help your learning.
These affective domain modules were authored and edited by faculty, researchers, and graduate students at University of Colorado Boulder, University of Northern Colorado, and University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. The modules are designed to help students learn about their own learning and were funded by NSF grant DUE-1834666 and NSF grant DUE-1949737.
Project leads: Julie M. Sexton, Molly M. Jameson, Jennifer M. Wenner.
Module authors: Julie M. Sexton, Molly M. Jameson, Dina London, and Jennifer M. Wenner
Copyright: these modules may be distributed freely, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.