Really excited to share two new studies from CLICK alums on ways to support student collaboration! Kayley Lyons et al. used design-based research to develop, study, and refine Collabucate, a web-based tool for fostering social regulation of learning. Read more about the tool and the development process here: CLICK.

Nikki Lobczowski et al. studied how argumentation and social regulation of learning occurred in small-groups of high-school students engaged in science tasks. You can learn more about their findings, including how argumentation and regulation differed across instances of challenging versus building understanding. CLICK

If you’ve gone online, you’ve probably encountered information you weren’t seeking out or expecting. Maybe you dismissed it, quickly. But did it affect you in some way? Has it changed your thinking or beliefs, even without you realizing it? Those are questions we explore in our latest article on incidental learning effects when using technology. Check it out here: CLICK.

We are pleased to announce that the American Psychological Association’s Division 15 Blog in Psychology Today, has published a post by Dalila Dragnić-Cindrić and Jeff Greene titled “Managing Uncertainty: Helping Parents in Uncertain Times.” In this piece, Dalila and Jeff illuminated several old constructs from social psychology related to how people react to and deal with uncertainty. The authors used these constructs to distill practical advice for the parents currently facing uncertainty about the upcoming school year. Check it out here:  CLICK

We were so pleased and honored to be invited to the LEAD Graduate School and Research Network conference, hosted by the University of Tübingen! CLICK members presented their work and got some great feedback!

Jeff always looks so natural in these photos! 🙂

Check out this cool collaboration between CLICK and Keith Sawyer:

“There is a lack of research and practice focused on how to foster higher-order processing, such as creative performance, within higher education settings. To address this gap in research, we chose to study pedagogical practices in schools of art and design, where one of the intended learning outcomes is creativity. Based upon data gathered as part of a larger study (Sawyer in Thinking Skills and Creativity, http://doi.org/10.1016/J.TSC.2018.08.002, 2018), we found that among a large number of creative performance pedagogical practices we identified, a subset seemed to foster self-regulated learning (SRL). Therefore, the goal of our study was to identify the ways art and design professors enacted practices that foster their students’ self-regulation during learning and performance. We found these professors utilized a number of direct and indirect methods of fostering their students’ SRL, all intended to enhance students’ ability to enact creative performance. In addition to revealing interesting comparisons between SRL in art and design and other more commonly studied contexts such as science or history, our findings suggested numerous directions for expanding SRL models, including a greater focus on process as the outcome of SRL, a need to continue research into SRL during higher-order processing, and gaps regarding the development of SRL.”

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Check out this cool new learning analytics publication with CLICK members and Matt Bernacki!

“The scientific literacy and conceptual understanding demands of the 21st century have necessitated fundamental changes in science education, including changes from traditional lecture to more active learning pedagogies. The affordances of such pedagogies can benefit students, but only when they are able to enact effective and efficient self-regulated learning processing. More research is needed to understand how and when students should self-regulate during science learning, as well as how to help those students who struggle to do so. In this study, we leveraged multimodal online interaction trace data from 408 college students enrolled in an introductory biology class to investigate the temporal nature of self-regulation during science education. Using latent profile analyses, we found differences in self-regulatory processing predicted course performance, with implications for the development of systems for identifying and supporting students who are likely to struggle in active learning science education environments.”

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Excited to share this new published study by CLICK lab members:

“First-year courses have been used to bolster college student success, but empirical evidence on their efficacy is mixed. We investigated whether a first-year science of learning course, focused on self-regulated learning, would benefit first-generation college students. We randomly assigned students to a treatment condition involving enrollment in the course, a comparison condition in which students had access to online course materials only, or a control condition. From this larger study, we recruited 43 students to participate in a laboratory task involving learning about the circulatory system with a computer. We found that treatment and comparison students experienced greater changes in conceptual knowledge than the control group, and we found differences in the enactment of monitoring and strategy use across conditions.”

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Many kudos to Nikki Lobczowski on her graduation as a Doctor of Philosophy! Her next step is a postdoctoral position at Carnegie Mellon University, and we’re so excited for her!

The CLICK Research Group was all over AERA2019! Robert Plumley presented a paper, Vic Deekens presented a poster, and Brian Cartiff and Bekah Duke presented a poster as well. In our excitement, we forgot to take a picture of Robert (oops!) but here are some pics of the rest of the crew presenting, and our annual Research Group dinner!