ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at what learners can do for themselves by changing their study strategies and getting enough rest. The most effective strategy is to switch from passive learning to active learning, which significantly improves performance and reduces failure rates. Psychologists study learning in a wide variety of ways, but have reached similar conclusions about what actually works. One powerful finding in learning research is the hypercorrection effect. One way to implement peer assessment is contributing student pedagogy, in which learners produce artifacts to contribute to others’ learning. This can be developing a short lesson and sharing it with the class, adding to a question bank, or writing up notes from a particular lecture for in-class publication. Another approach is calibrated peer review, in which a learner reviews one or more examples using a rubric and compares their evaluation against the teacher’s review of the same work.
