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Chen et al., 2017: Reflecting on, and planning to use learning resources improved performance in statistics among undergraduate students

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Chen, P., Chavez, O., Ong, D. C., & Gunderson, B. (2017). Strategic resource use for learning: A self-administered intervention that guides self-reflection on effective resource use enhances academic performance. Psychological science, 28(6), 774-785.
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Summary:

Encouraging undergraduates to reflect on what learning resources would help them learn best—identifying specific resources, writing about why each resource they chose would be helpful, and creating a specific plan to use that resource—improved performance in an introductory statistics class by one-third of a letter grade. The effect was mediated by greater reflection students reported on their learning progress, which, in turn, predicted greater reported effectiveness of learning resources.

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What Desired Meaning is At Stake?

What is the Person Trying to Understand?

Selves (My Own and Others')

Approach to Desired Meaning

What about it?

Changing beliefs about goals

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How will I accomplish my goals?

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Need

What is the Person Trying to Understand?

What Desired Meaning is At Stake?

What Desired Meaning is At Stake?

What About it?

Approach to Desired Meaning

Approach to Desired Meaning

How?

Psychological Question Addressed

Psychological Question Addressed

Psychological Question Addressed

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Approach to Desired Meaning

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Greg Walton & Timothy Wilson