Professor of Psychology; Samford Univ; I study cognition, teaching & learning; See https://xitter.cf/t.co/t8m1IGToF9 and https://xitter.cf/t.co/dfgDPQyfD1; Handbell Ringer
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My latest essay for @teachprof "Strategies for Improving Focus and Resisting Distractions" Subscription required.
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When students use generative AI to complete academic tasks, they may produce stronger-looking work while quietly skipping the harder processes that build understanding: monitoring, evaluating, questioning, and checking what they actually know.
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The most important briefings of the day.
Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, shares the news of his Nobel Prize with his kids.
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Sunday Scary’s: if you think you are the only one who has increased anxiety on Sunday evening you are not alone. It’s an interesting phenomenon, I’ve had it for decades and I explain to my medical students and graduate students and postdocs and residents many experience this. Now the @IHME_UW at the University of Washington has measured it and it’s off the charts mhstats.org/blog/global-anxi…
My latest essay for @teachprof, "Metacognitive Laziness and Student Use of Generative AI: A Classroom Example" Subscription required.
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What do highly inclusive teachers actually do? Researchers followed six teachers for a full school year. Much of what they found is surprisingly familiar from research on simply good teaching.
One of the more impressive studies I’ve read lately!
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From LSE
How do students solve unfamiliar biology problems?
This study found students who used core biological principles to guide their reasoning were more successful at developing mechanistic explanations.
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Research on AI and education is exploding. Stanford's repository has already passed 1,500 studies, and even the number of meta-analyses is becoming hard to keep up with.
But are we really learning that much more? This blog has an AI problem.
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My interview about metacognition and student learning.
Learn more about the one ability that separates those who thrive in college and those who don't. What do you think it is? 👉Read more hejob.co/qtUp50ZCuZ4
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Does size really matter when it comes to memory? University of Minnesota researchers William Gronewald, Vanessa Lee, and Roger Remington tested how the scale of an object shapes our visual short-term memory.
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ALT Dr. Vanessa Lee and Roger Remington
My latest essay for @teachprof "It’s Not Grade Inflation If Students Are Learning" Subscription required.
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From grade 1 to grad school, academics have shifted to become mostly virtual. But with online assessments comes online proctoring. Psych emeritus Thomas Brothen created a scale to measure students’ experiences with online exam proctoring.
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Police detectives are less accurate than college students at spotting false confessions.
They're also more confident about their assessments of guilt.
What a study reveals about truth, lies, and the criminal justice system. 🧵
Includes free toxic boss bingo card.
Career Advice | 16 Types of Toxic Bosses
If you recognize your boss in one of these prototypes, you can do something about it. By Jane S. Halonen , Stephen L. Chew and Dana S. Dunn: bit.ly/3RSQnHt
ALT A cartoon-like drawing of a bossy manager sitting in a big chair, talking into a megaphone, seemingly ignoring the needs of employees. One carries a huge stack of papers, suggesting he is overburdened. Two employees look stressed and overwhelmed while sitting at their computers. A fourth has a megaphone with which he appears to be trying to communicate with the boss.
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Harvard just capped A grades at 20% to fight grade inflation. Is this policy measuring intelligence, or is it secretly doing the exact opposite?
The hidden flaws behind this policy will surprise you.
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Teaching isn't just about delivering information, it's about creating the right conditions for learning.
Teaching isn't just about delivering information, it's about creating the right conditions for learning.
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After more than 40 years in higher education, one professor revisited the advice he gave first-year students over three decades ago and discovered something remarkable: it still holds true today, even in the age of AI.
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My latest essay for @teachprof "Why Grade Limits Won’t Solve Grade Inflation" Subscrption required. teachingprofessor.com/topics…
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Do accessible fonts improve readability? UMN researchers Gordon Legge, Rachel Gage, and collaborators found font choice matters less than text size and contrast for low-vision readers. buff.ly/8t0AeSx
ALT Dr. Gordon Legge and Rachel Gage
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A famed police interrogation technique led to infamous false confessions in Nebraska. We still use it. Terrific piece by JJ Harder discussing the declining use of the Reid Technique everywhere (but not in Nebraska). @flatwaterfreep 1011now.com/2026/07/09/famed…
