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Learning for today versus learning for tomorrow: Teaching evaluations
Really interesting set of experiments that give us new insight into the value of teaching evaluations. The second is particularly striking and points to the difficulty of measuring teaching quality —...
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Success in MOOCs: Talk offline is important for learning
That students who had offline help did the best in this MOOC study is not surprising. Sir John Daniel reported in Mega-Universities that face-to-face tutors was the largest line item in the Open...
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Not clear that we can learn anything about learning from neuroscience yet
I like David Brooks’s opinion pieces quite a bit, and particularly his pieces where he draws on research. The piece linked below touches on an issue that I’ve been wondering about. All this...
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Seymour Papert Tribute at IDC 2013
I only planned to watch a little bit of this. Allison Druin’s talk was particularly recommended to me. So I started watching, and Paulo Blikstein’s opening remarks were so intriguing. (I loved his...
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The Two Cultures of Educational Reform – NYTimes.com
(Shoot — I meant to put this on “draft” and come back to it, but hit the wrong button. Sigh.) Here’s what I thought was interesting about this piece: I agree with Fish’s depiction of “data and...
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Carl Wieman Moves to Stanford to Focus on Better Science Teaching
Carl Weiman has accepted a position at Stanford to focus on science teaching. It’s a great place for him, and I expect that we’ll hear more interesting things from him in the future. One aspect of...
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1st “BOOC” on Scaling-Up What Works about to start at Indiana University
I talked with Dan Hickey about this — it’s an interesting alternative to MOOCs, and the topic is relevant for this blog. In the fall semester of 2013, IU School of Education Researcher and Associate...
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Knowing more doesn’t necessarily lead to correct reasoning: Politics changes...
Thanks to Elizabeth Patitsas for this piece. Fascinating experiment — people solve the exact same math problem differently if the context is “whether a skin cream works” or “whether gun control laws...
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Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function
An interesting experiment, with a deeply disturbing result. The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate poverty. We hypothesize that poverty directly impedes cognitive...
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Say Goodbye to Myers-Briggs, the Fad That Won’t Die
Once in our Learning Sciences seminar, we all took the Myers-Briggs test on day 1 of the semester, and again at the end. Almost everybody’s score changed. So, why do people still use it as some kind...
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Computing Education Research and the Technology Readiness Level
I just learned about this Technology Readiness Level (see Wikipedia page here) and found it interesting. Does it make sense for computing education research, or any education research at all? Aren’t...
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Crowd-sourcing high-quality CS Ed Assessments: CAS’s Project Quantum
Bold new project from the UK’s Computing at School project aims to create high-quality assessments for their entire computing curriculum, across grade levels. The goal is to generate crowd-sourced...
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Sepehr Vakil appointed first Associate Director of Equity and Inclusion in...
I just met Sepehr at an ECEP planning meeting. Exciting to meet another CS Ed faculty in an Education school! He won the Yamashita Prize at Berkeley in 2015 for his STEM activism. Dr. Vakil’s...
View ArticleSo much to learn about emergency remote teaching, but so little to claim...
The Chronicle of Higher Education published an article by Jonathan Zimmerman on March 10 arguing that we should use the dramatic shift to online classes due to Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to...
View ArticleActive learning has differential benefits for underserved students
We have had evidence that active learning teaching methods have more benefit for underserved populations than for majority groups (for example, I discussed the differential impact of active learning...
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