<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="" itemprop="name">Students don’t know what’s best for their own learning
</h1><p>Universities and governments around the world rely on student
evaluations to assess university teachers and degrees. Likewise,
potential students check online <a href="http://www.hobsonscoursefinder.com.au/">ratings</a>
when deciding where to study. These evaluations are based on the logic
that students must know best what helps them learn. So it’s surprising
to discover that students may be the worst people to ask about the
quality of education.</p>
<p>Two recent studies of student evaluations clearly demonstrated this
point. Both studies looked at student evaluations and learning. Both
came to the same conclusion: <b>university students evaluate their teachers
more positively when they learn less</b>.</p><p>...</p><p></p><h2>Students don’t recognise learning</h2>
<p>Students are also not very good at recognising what helps them to learn. Instead, world-leading educational psychologist <a href="http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-113011-143823">Robert Bjork</a>
from UCLA reports that students assess whether they have learnt
something based on the ease with which they complete a related task.</p>
<p>That is why many students assume that reading or highlighting
passages in their text-book, or merely listening to a lecture, is enough
to produce learning. They mistake the ease of the task with greater
knowledge. Time-consuming and effortful tasks, like self-testing their
knowledge, are consequently seen by students as less efficient for their
learning, despite the fact that the more difficult tasks produce the
most learning.</p><p><br></p>Veja mais em <a href="https://theconversation.com/students-dont-know-whats-best-for-their-own-learning-33835">https://theconversation.com/students-dont-know-whats-best-for-their-own-learning-33835</a><br></div>