An early-semester presentation on fluency and feeling of learning improved students' attitudes toward active learning¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r2–r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2019 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? After a 20-min early-semester presentation on fluency, feeling of learning, and actual learning, over 65% of students reported their feelings about active learning's effectiveness significantly improved over the semester. → Deslauriers L. 2019 q2 i? 75% of students reported the beginning-of-semester intervention helped them feel more favorably toward active learning during lectures. → Deslauriers L. 2019 (2)

Evidence¶

Deslauriers L. 2019¶

Deslauriers L., McCarty L. S., Miller K., Callaghan K., Kestin G. (2019). Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1821936116

q2 · i? · causal · r2

End-of-semester survey in a physics course using the same active learning strategy after the 20-min early-semester presentation. "over 65% of students reported on a survey that their feelings about the effectiveness of active learning significantly improved"; no effect size is printed.

"At the end of the semester, over 65% of students reported on a survey that their feelings about the effectiveness of active learning significantly improved over the course of the semester."

Deslauriers L. 2019 (2)¶

Deslauriers L., McCarty L. S., Miller K., Callaghan K., Kestin G. (2019). Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1821936116

q2 · i? · causal · r3

Same end-of-semester survey of the intervention course. "A similar proportion (75%) of students reported that the intervention at the beginning of the semester helped them feel more favorably toward active learning during lectures."

"A similar proportion (75%) of students reported that the intervention at the beginning of the semester helped them feel more favorably toward active learning during lectures."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Fluent Illusions Mislead Self Assessment — related
• Learners misjudge which learning strategies are effective — a broader claim this one bears on
• Effortful, fluent-feeling experiences can create an illusion of learning: felt sense of learning is a poor gauge of actual learning — related