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Fostering Higher-Order Learning in STEM Education: A Role for Science of Learning
Victor Benassi Faculty Director, Center for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching and Learning
Professor of PsychologyUniversity of New Hampshire
Fostering Academic Success in STEM ConferenceApril 27, 2018
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Acknowledgments
• This work is made possible by a grant from the Davis Educational Foundation. The Foundation was established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after Mr. Davis's retirement as chairman of Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc.
• Thanks also to the New Hampshire (UNH) Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and to the Instructional Design and Development office.
• Special thanks to Catherine Overson, Lauren Kordonowy, Elizabeth Tappin, Roy Richardson, Danney Rasco, and Michael Melville.
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Linking Kind of Knowledge, Learning
Processes, and Instructional Method
Kind of Knowledge
Learning Processes
Instructional method
Based on Koedinger, et al. (2012). The Knowledge-Learning-Instruction (KLI) framework: Bridging the science-practice chasm to enhance robust student learning. Cognitive Science, 36, 757-798.
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Pulling it Together
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Learning, Instruction, & Activity
LearningObjective
Instructional Principle
Learning Activity
Facts Spacing and Retrieval
Activities that promote retrieval (e.g, quizzing)
DiscriminationCategorization
Classification
Interleaving of practice
Examples
Content review
Pairing concepts with examples
PrinciplesMental modelProblem-solving
Self-ExplanationTransfer-appropriateprocessing
Self-explanation prompts for each section in a reading assignmentGuiding questions
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Learning, Instruction, & Activity
LearningObjective
Instructional Principle
Learning Activity
Facts Spacing and Retrieval
Activities that promote retrieval (e.g., quizzing)
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Numerous Studies on Fact Learning• Carpenter, S. K. (2014). Spacing and interleaving of study and
practice. In V. A. Benassi, C. E. Overson, & C. M. Hakala(Eds.), Applying the science of learning in education: Infusing psychological science into the curriculum. Retrieved from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology web site: http://teachpsych.org/ebooks/asle2014/index.php
• Pyc, M. A., Agarwal, P. K., & Roediger, H. L. (2014). Test-enhanced learning. In V. A. Benassi, C. E. Overson, & C. M. Hakala (Eds.), Applying the science of learning in education: Infusing psychological science into the curriculum. Retrieved from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology web site: http://teachpsych.org/ebooks/asle2014/index.php
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LearningObjective
Instructional Principle
Learning Activity
Facts Spacing and Retrieval
Activities that promote retrieval (e.g., quizzing)
DiscriminationCategorization
Classification
Interleaving of practice
Examples
Content review
Pairing concepts with examples
Learning, Instruction, & Activity
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Interleaving:Revisiting the Past
Course: Statistical Reasoning
Overson, Stiegler-Balfour, Tappin, Melville, Rasco, & Benassi, 2016
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WHAT WE DID
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Study Background:Sequence of Instruction and Quizzing
• Reading and instruction by teacher
Statistical test is covered
Review of Material on statistical test, including conditions to be met to use the test
Completion of online module on the statistical test
• Non-Interleaving: Quiz on the current statistical test only• Interleaving: Quiz on both the current statistical test and on
previous tests
Quiz
Repeat until all statistical tests addressed
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z testSingle sample tCorrelated-groups tBetween-groups tANOVAChi SquareCorrelationRegression
Eight Statistical Tests
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Experimental Manipulation Within Course
Statistical Reasoning (Rasco)N = 38
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RESULTSComparing Question Conditions
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Mean Proportion Correct on Final Exam on Choosing the Appropriate Statistical Test
one sided p < .03
Error Bars: 95% CI
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How might you incorporate this principle into your courses?
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The Power of Examples in Improving Classification of
Concepts
Rawson, K. A., Thomas, R. C., & Jacoby, L. L. (2015). The power of examples: Illustrative examples enhance conceptual learning of declarative concepts. Educational Psychology Review, 27, 483-504.
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Study Design
In three lab experiments, under a variety of conditions,• College students studied declarative concepts,
followed by either examples of the concepts or by additional study of the concepts.
• On a later classification task, students were shown examples and were asked to identify which concept the example represented.
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Study Design
• In three lab experiments, under a variety of conditions,1. Definition only2. Definition then Example3. Example then Definition
• On a later classification task, students were shown examples and were asked to identify which concept the example represented.
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Refer to Rawson, et al., 2015, Figures 1A and 1B
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How might you incorporate this principle into your courses?
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Learning, Instruction, & Activity
LearningObjective
Instructional Principle
Learning Activity
Facts Spacing and Retrieval
Activities that promote retrieval (e.g, quizzing)
DiscriminationCategorization
Classification
Interleaving of practice
Examples
Content review
Pairing concepts with examples
PrinciplesMental modelProblem-solving
Self-ExplanationTransfer-Appropriate Processing
Self-explanation prompts for each section in a reading assignmentGuiding Questions
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Self-Explanation:Making sense and meaning of new
informationCourse: Biological Science
N = 148
Overson, Kordonowy, Benassi, Richardson, 2017
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Self-explanation
• Self-monitoring of evolving understanding– Review new material– Relate information to prior knowledge– Generate questions based on new understanding
• Mechanism– Identification of gaps in learning– Helps modify flawed, existing mental models
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WHAT WE DID
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Student Learning Activity• Read assigned material• Responded to prompts after each reading
section1. What information is new?2. How do the new ideas work with what you
already know?3. List two “I wonder (if, whether, why, how, which,
where, who, etc.) . . .” questions that you have as a result of reading this section
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Research Design
• Random assignment to one of two groups– Self-explanation group– Summary group
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RESULTSComparing Question Conditions
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Error Bars: 95% CI
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Does background ability matter?
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How might you incorporate this principle into your courses?
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Guiding Questions
Attending to relevant, related information
Stiegler-Balfour, J. J., & Benassi, V .A. (2015). Guiding questions promote learning of expository text for less-skilled readers. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 14, 312-325.
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Guiding Questions• Transfer-Appropriate Processing in a Psychology of
Consciousness Course• N = 39• Completed Gates McGinity Reading Test• Completed reading assignments• Guiding questions for some assignments, not for
others.• Essay exam on all material. Focused on integration
of concepts from readings.
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Guiding Questions ExamplesEncouraged students to think about relationships
among concepts from the readings:
“What potential problems are there with the idea that consciousness causes our actions?”
“What kinds of evidence suggest a dissociation between vasomotor control and visual perception?”
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Learning Outcomes
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How might you incorporate this principle into your courses?
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Conclusions and Recommendations
• Do your courses already incorporate the kinds of principles I have discussed today?
• You can incorporate evidence-based principles, informed by science of learning, into your courses.
• You can expect to observe strong learning outcomes among your students.
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Conclusions and Recommendations
• We have just scratched the service.
• Here are some sources:
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ResourceBenassi, V. A., Overson, C. E., & Hakala, C. M. (2014). Applying science of learning in education: Infusing psychological science into the curriculum. Retrieved from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology web site: http://teachpsych.org/ebooks/asle2014/index.php
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Some User-Friendly websites• Retrieval Practice
http://www.retrievalpractice.orgPooja Argarwal
• The Learning Scientists
http://www.learningscientists.orgMegan Smith and Yana Weinstein
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Some Accessible Videos• Deep Learning (M. Chi)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC-9lViDGL0
• How People Learn (H. Roedinger)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tz8gVPHhFE
• Teaching, Learning, and Technology: A Role for Science of Learning (V. Benassi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG439BzFh7I
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