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Design Considerations for Exam Wrappers part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Tomorrow's Professor posting looks at the use of exam wrappers as a way to help students improve their performance on exams. Exam wrappers are short activities that direct students to ...
Ten Rules of Good (and Bad) Studying part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Tomorrow's Professor posting is an excerpt from A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) (2014). It summarizes excellent tips on good (and bad) ...
Active Learning For The College Classroom part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site explains different types of "active learning" teaching styles/techniques, including exercises for individual students, group question/answers, immediate feedback, ...
History of Energy in the United States: 1635-2000 part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website, from the US Department of Energy, provides a history of energy use in the US from 1635-2000. It includes several figures showing how energy sources and consumption have changed through ...
Transfer of learning: Issues and research agenda part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a report on a workshop held at NSF in 2002. It begins with a broad introduction to the transfer of knowledge, discussing why it is both central and timely to the country's educational ...
Metacognition: An Overview part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The author reviews metacognition, metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive regulation, the distinction between cognitive and metacognitive strategies, the relationship between metacognition and ...
Metacognition: Study Strategies, Monitoring, and Motivation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The author briefly reviews metacognition and its connections with study strategies, self-monitoring, and motivation. He then offers examples of specific strategies instructors can teach students to ...
Overview of Learning And Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Extensive research, development, and testing led to the creation of this statistically valid and reliable tool for the diagnosis of study skills. The LASSI is a 10-scale, 60-item assessment of ...
Teaching Metacognition part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This webpage features resources associated with the 2008 Educause Learning Initiative annual meeting session on Teaching Metacognition. It includes links to Marsha Lovett's powerpoint slides and ...
Metacognition part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This page defines metacognition, describes the differences between novice and expert learners, and describes the metacognitive strategies that lead to success in learning.