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Rebuilding the First-Year Seminar with New Science of

Learning Principles

Caroline TwachtmanKevin YeeUniversity of South Florida

Kevin Yee - Caroline Twachtman - University of South Florida - 37th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience • San Antonio, Texas

Learning Styles? Learning Pyramid?

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Random Controlled Trials

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Guess!

• distributed practice• elaborative interrogation• highlighting (or underlining)• imagery use for text learning• interleaved practice• keyword mnemonic• rereading• practice testing• self-explanation• summarization


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Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology

John Dunlosky, Katherine A. Rawson, Elizabeth J. Marsh, Mitchell J. Nathan, and Daniel T. Willingham

Psychological Science in the Public InterestJanuary 2013 vol. 14 no. 1 4-58


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http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/journals/pspi/learning-techniques.html

Practice Testing


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Distributed Practice


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Interleaving


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“Brain Based” Publications

• Todd Zakrajsec, The New Science of Learning

• David A. Sousa, How the Brain Learns

• Daniel Willingham, Why Don’t Students Like School?

• Peter Brown, Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

• Benedict Carey: How We Learn


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Principles – Guess Them!

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Principles

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“fire together, wire together”


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Principles

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Principles

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Repetition

Repetition

Repetition

Repetition

RepetitionKevin Yee - Caroline Twachtman - University of South Florida -

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Interrupting the Forgetting Process


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Interrupting the Forgetting Process

LEARNING IS EFFORTFUL!Kevin Yee - Caroline Twachtman - University of South Florida -37th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience • San

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Nicholas Carr, The Shallows (2011)


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Our job in class?


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Principles

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Implications for Teaching

• Course Design

• Lesson Planning

• Classroom Management

• PowerPoint/Handouts

• Testing/Assessment Strategy

• Use of Quizzes

• Purpose (and Focus) of Lecture

• Interactivity and Active Engagement

• Online Materials


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University Experience (2009)


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Academic Foundations (2017)


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Mapping PrinciplesInnovations Learning Science Principle

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Thank you!

Questions?Kevin Yee - Caroline Twachtman - University of South Florida -37th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience • San

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MyPoint Connector

• Install software (didonai.com) onto computer

• Install app onto phone• Join SAME wifi network• Run computer program, right click

for IP address• Open app, type IP address


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Rebuilding the First-Year Seminar with New Learning Science Principles in Mind

37th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience San Antonio, Texas

Kevin Yee Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Director of the Academy of

Teaching and Learning Excellence University of South Florida [email protected]

Caroline Twachtman Assistant Director, Academic Foundations First Year Seminar,

Undergraduate Studies University of South Florida [email protected]

Notes for putting Learning Science Principles into practice: Recommended Reading: Carey, B. (2015). How we learn: the surprising truth about when, where and why it happens. New York: Random House. Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students’ learning with

effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4-58. doi:10.1177/1529100612453266

Willingham, D. T. (2009). Why don't students like school?: A cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for your classroom. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Zakrajsek, T. D., & Doyle, T. (2013). (Eds.) Teaching for brain-based learning [Special Issue]. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 24(3).

Mapping Innovations for the First-Year Seminar

Innovations Learning Science Principle

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