Shaun Vecera

Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Iowa. Tweets/opinions my own.

[The Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle]

How one university is using “three M’s” — mind-set, metacognition, and memory — to create a shared vocabulary of how students, and all of us, learn. https://t.co/dlCLRcDkKL

[The Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle]

“When you talk about learning, I think you can easily see how these skills transfer across not just courses, but also transfer from the university into a career,” says the leader of Learning at Iowa. https://t.co/4oOmDAmPw9

[anat @alevtov]

Learning at Iowa is in the @chronicle of Higher Ed today! Great story about the project, which is "both revolutionary and obvious at once": https://t.co/5Z1JLTGJQP

@uiowa @ProfVecera @Anna_Flaming

[Shaun Vecera @ProfVecera]

Welcome to the first day of classes @uiowa #Classof2026! Looking to add a class this Fall semester to support your academic success? Try PSY:1010, Learning About Learning. Here's what students say about the class:

[Shaun Vecera @ProfVecera]

Apparently I opened my mouth and agreed to this. Support the Iowa Honors Program during #1DayForIowa if you'd like me to color my grey roots: https://t.co/puAEEVrgiq

[Shaun Vecera @ProfVecera]

What happens outside the classroom can be as important as what happens inside. That's the the UI Honors Program is using #1DayForIowa to support experiential learning. Join us in supporting internships, research, creative projects, study abroad,... https://t.co/puAEEVrgiq

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Giving students access to class slides before class might seem helpful but hurts learning, according to multiple studies & experiments.

Having slides in advance lowers note-taking, attendance, and overall class performance. (Of course, this must be balanced with accommodation)

[Shaun Vecera @ProfVecera]

@hardsci Oh, that's easy. And I can do it with one pic.

[Shaun Vecera @ProfVecera]

Great example of an assignment 'wrapper' to promote metacognition during problem solving. The thread gives a great step-by-step for adapting the approach.

[Shaun Vecera @ProfVecera]

Good instructors matter!

A moment that changed me: Patrick Stewart on the teacher who spotted his talent – and saved him https://t.co/c7j2ncT3m1

[The Daily Iowan @TheDailyIowan]

The recently funded P3 projects headed by University of Iowa professors will reach all sectors of campus life and adhere to the values of the UI’s strategic plan.
https://t.co/oqGJ9gzrOi\

[Andrei Cimpian @AndreiCimpian]

Excited to share a new @PsychScience paper co-authored w/ David Yeager, Carol Dweck, and many other fabulous folks. Take-away: ⚠️Teaching students a growth mindset only helped their grades if the classroom context supported their new mindset.⚠️
https://t.co/ErvHHdLTEn

[Shaun Vecera @ProfVecera]

@NPR Not sure. Sounds right?

[Shaun Vecera @ProfVecera]

If you cook in cast iron, you'll get this: Every cast-iron pan tells a story https://t.co/qLrgpTEVRM

[Jon Boeckenstedt @JonBoeckenstedt]

Thread: We need to get a few things straight, people.

Those advocating for the return of the SAT in admissions because "other things seem to favor wealthy students" seem to be missing something.

Something kind of big.

[Shaun Vecera @ProfVecera]

@JonBoeckenstedt Wonderful thread! Advocates of SAT/ACT also should advocate use of local norms, which *could* benefit first-gen, URM, and others. Your income-ACT graph shows this nicely: Percentiles aren't the same for a $150k student as it is for a <$100k student.

[Shaun Vecera @ProfVecera]

Lack of Socioeconomic Diversity Among Faculty: Faculty More Likely to Have Wealthier, Highly Educated Parents https://t.co/OcUWyyZb6c

[Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll]

Wild. Professors are way more likely to have parents with PhDs, no surprise there. But it’s true even just among people who get PhDs! I.e. somehow, once you graduate with a PhD, having a PhD parent makes you twice as likely to eventually land a faculty job. h/t @aatishb

[Shaun Vecera @ProfVecera]

@LangOnCourse Agreed! 'Thinking skills' require you to have something to think about. @DTWillingham has a great piece that makes this point and illustrates why teaching critical thinking can be so challenging.

[UIowa Computer Science @UIowaCS]

📢Looking forward to U Iowa Computer Science assisting @UIowaCLAS|@UICfT/@itsuiowa "Implement #Hawkeye #IntroductoryCourses, preparatory math and science-based courses that support #StudentSuccess and improve #LearningOutcomes" #IntroToCS #CSFundamentals 👉https://t.co/aIHkCDHDjL