Stephen Chew

Professor of Psychology; Samford Univ; I study cognition, teaching & learning; See and Handbell Ringer

[Stephen Chew @SChewPsych]

@thebandb As my colleague @BillCerbin says, "Abraham Lincoln would have loved MOOC's" but it was never going to be the educational panacea it was touted to be.

[Stephen Chew @SChewPsych]

My latest essay for @teachprof "Strategies for Improving Focus and Resisting Distractions" Subscription required.
https://t.co/yMXRE5oXfE

[Stephen Chew @SChewPsych]

@C_Hendrick @DTWillingham But every “best practice” ever proposed makes the same assumption. That doesn’t distinguish DI.

[Teaching Professor @teachprof]

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.

https://t.co/wo7VlfOOS0

[Stanford University @Stanford]

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.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

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 https://t.co/yJMSjkqzMe

[Stephen Chew @SChewPsych]

My latest essay for @teachprof, "Metacognitive Laziness and Student Use of Generative AI: A Classroom Example" Subscription required.
https://t.co/Nk0NFxd6NJ

[Pedro De Bruyckere @thebandb]

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!
https://t.co/VorAh8gZT2

[Life Sciences Education @CBELifescied]

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.

https://t.co/BjKdzaahK3

[Stephen Chew @SChewPsych]

@olicav My deepest sympathies to you and your family.

[Pedro De Bruyckere @thebandb]

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.
https://t.co/qEQJ9OGT9o

[Stephen Chew @SChewPsych]

My interview about metacognition and student learning.

[HigherEdJobs @HigherEdJobs]

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 https://t.co/O4X8nO8eFA

[UMN Psychology @UMNPsych]

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.
https://t.co/20g3Oiw6jD

[Stephen Chew @SChewPsych]

My latest essay for @teachprof "It’s Not Grade Inflation If Students Are Learning" Subscription required.
https://t.co/F5JLWfXbyY

[Stephen Chew @SChewPsych]

@DTWillingham I give a similar piece of advice to ppl about using AI, “AI should never be used if you don’t know enough to judge the quality of the answer it gives you.”

[UMN Psychology @UMNPsych]

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.
https://t.co/YHJ6Gl3U2K

[Hidden Brain @HiddenBrain]

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. 🧵

[Stephen Chew @SChewPsych]

Includes free toxic boss bingo card.

[Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered]

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: https://t.co/vvWPRBrpY5

[Stephen Chew @SChewPsych]

@SoLInTheWild Back in grad school we had a saying that is less elegant than Dan’s but better addresses your point, “The head remembers what it does.”