The Cognition-Motivation Connection
Tea for Teaching
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How to Motivate Students to Use Evidence-Based Learning Strategies
Students tend to use strategies that provide some short-term benefit and seem to be easier rather than the strategies that require them to struggle a little bit more with the content. We have this great powerful line of research that shows that actually mixing it up in an unpredictable way means it's going to be a lot more memorable when you actually work through those practice problems or practice sets. So I don't think students are trying to do low-effort strategies, but just like the rest of us, we don't have a very good or accurate view of what actually pays off in terms of learning.
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