[ABE-L] Students don’t know what’s best for their own learning

[Alexandre Galvão Patriota]

Students don’t know what’s best for their own learning

Universities and governments around the world rely on student evaluations
to assess university teachers and degrees. Likewise, potential students
check online ratings <http://www.hobsonscoursefinder.com.au/> 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.

Two recent studies of student evaluations clearly demonstrated this point.
Both studies looked at student evaluations and learning. Both came to the
same conclusion: *university students evaluate their teachers more
positively when they learn less*.

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Students don’t recognise learning

Students are also not very good at recognising what helps them to learn.
Instead, world-leading educational psychologist Robert Bjork
<http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-113011-143823>
from UCLA reports that students assess whether they have learnt something
based on the ease with which they complete a related task.

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.


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