Researchers unbound 2019What’s stopping us from performing better
despite working hard?
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PICK NOTES -> ED SHEERAN “SHAPE OF YOU”, BACKSTREET BOY,
EASY
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• Based on ALSET’s ALS1010 Learning to Learn Better in partnership
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Introduction
France, 2018
CET –SCALE (NUS L3 Program) 2018
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“Learning to learn better is a powerful tool that should
be in every students’, or even professionals’ toolkit
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learning techniques based on peer-reviewed
research.”
Team up!
Let’s experience the
Metacognition (Thinking about thinking)
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We will talk more about learning strategies, but perhaps more
importantly, think more about your regulation of learning
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Regulation of learning – How do you get yourself learning
(What worked well?)
work?)
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Learning Experiences Live demonstrations for you to experience and
understand the factors influencing knowledge acquisition
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ANIMAL FARM
SHAPES OF YOU
Take note of your groups!
ODD & EVEN
LOOTING THE LOUVRE
Painting
Everybody stand
WHO DID BETTER? (EVERYONE VOTE ON POLLEV)
ODD OR EVEN
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#1 look at screen (context, making connections) Odd got to practice
it
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• It doesn’t matter how much time you spend reading if you don’t
practice
•Better able to recall if you practice retrieving information from
your memory (it is in there!)
Retrieval Practice
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Metacognition (Thinking about thinking)
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We will talk more about learning strategies, but perhaps more
importantly, think more about your regulation of learning
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RE-READING doesn’t help!
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when going over powerpoint slides, when the slides are ready they
just read the slides again what you should do is act it out, speak
in their own room to friend
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Practice recall
•Flashcards •Apps
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•Create something yourself and you increase the value of it because
you created it
Applying the Ikea Effect
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Stay engaged with the material, as if you were “one on one” with
the coach
• Anticipate where the topic is going • Ask questions of the
material
• “what does this information remind me of?” • Guess the answer to
your questions
Dialogue with the material
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•Own a logbook •Jot down the granular actions you took, record the
outcome
Ways to improve performance
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Mission Success!
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Poll Title: Blocked: How many paintings did you get correct?
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Poll Title: Interleaved: How many paintings did you get correct?
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Why the difference in scores
•Practice does not make perfect
•Perfect practice makes perfect
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Interleaved vs Blocked Learning
Interleaved
Blocked
TEST
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Does this same effect apply in other areas of learning?
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INTERLEAVING
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Baseball story California Polytechnic State University They asked
college baseball players to practice hitting three types of pitches
(fastball, curveball, and change-up), and the 45 practice pitches
were either blocked by type (15 fastballs, 15 curveballs, and 15
change-ups) or interleaved (fastball, curveball, change-up, etc.).
Interleaving led to superior hitting on a final test requiring
batters to hit pitches of each type without knowing the type of
pitch in advance, as in a real game.
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INTERLEAVING
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Baseball story They asked college baseball players to practice
hitting three types of pitches (fastball, curveball, and
change-up), and the 45 practice pitches were either blocked by type
(15 fastballs, 15 curveballs, and 15 change-ups) or interleaved
(fastball, curveball, change-up, etc.). Interleaving led to
superior hitting on a final test requiring batters to hit pitches
of each type without knowing the type of pitch in advance, as in a
real game.
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Interleaving
• Interleaving is hard work • Utilizing interleaving
• brain constantly assess new information - discriminate • form new
“strategy” to deal with it • train the brain - different responses,
decisions, actions
• At workplace – work never comes in block • Eg. change similar
tasks three times in an hour • Eg. financial reports (analyze and
interpret)
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InterleavedBlocked
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Rohrer, D Interleaving helps students distinguish among similar
concepts. Educational Psychology Review (2012)
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A2 B2 C2
A3 B3 C3
Interleaved vs Blocked Learning
Interleaving is hard work.
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Our students’ experiences • 70 % recognizes that there are 5
animals added in
the second group
• Very few can recall & name all the animals shown in the first
and second group
• What does this mean?
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• That doesn’t mean we’ll be able to recall it later
• “I thought I knew it!” • If you simply re-read, you are just
reinforcing
that it’s been seen before • But you may not be able to remember it
on the
test • Re-reading is not a good learning strategy
**e.g. meetings presentation slides
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We are very good at recognizing if something is new/old That
doesn’t mean we’ll be able to recall it later If you simply re-read
your notes, you are just reinforcing that it’s old But you may not
be able to remember it on the test Re-reading notes is not a good
study strategy
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WRAP UP
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WHAT GOT YOU HERE, MIGHT NOT GET YOU THERE
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Being hired by NUS is already a sign of strength and that you are
of a certain calibre, but that doesn’t mean that what got you into
NUS will help you continue to perform at the next level when you
are seeking promotion within NUS. Finding a sustainable way to
continue to work
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Strategic Approach: Practical Tips
• Your old techniques may not be as effective or sustainable
• They don’t apply to everyone or to the same type of work
• Many different types of approaches • What is useful for one, may
not be for others
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Efficiency in learning 24 hours, increase efficiency increase in
performance
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Our thoughts for you
• It’s not about how much effort you put in, but where you spend
that effort
• Knowing where to put in the effort makes all the
difference!
• The first step is to do something different
• It might be uneasy at first. But over time, you will get better
at it
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Story of an expert fixing a ship’s engine
“Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort makes all
the difference!”
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A giant ship engine failed. The ship's owners tried one expert
afteranother, but none of them could figure but how to fix the
engine.Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships
since he was ayoung. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and
when he arrived, heimmediately went to work. He inspected the
engine very carefully, top tobottom.Two of the ship's owners were
there, watching this man, hoping he would knowwhat to do. After
looking things over, the old man reached into his bag andpulled out
a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the
enginelurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The
engine was fixed!A week later, the owners received a bill from the
old man for ten thousanddollars. "What?!" the owners
exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!"So they wrote the old man a
note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill."The man sent a bill
that read:Tapping with a hammer....................... $
2.00Knowing where to tap.......................... $
9,998.00*Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort
makes all thedifference!*
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Thank you for your time!
Go work at it now, be better at performing!
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What’s stopping us from performing better despite working
hard?
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Metacognition (Thinking about thinking)
LearningExperiences
ANIMAL FARM
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LOOTING THE LOUVRE
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Interleaved vs Blocked Learning