More testing, lower stakes: How retrieval practice helps students learn: An OFE partners session Online
How do you help students learn and not simply memorize? How do you balance rigor and flexibility? Should more class time be devoted to learning foundational knowledge, or to developing higher-order critical thinking? Join Linguistics professors Lauren Covey and Jonathan Howell to learn more about retrieval practice, an evidence-based teaching method that increases the amount of testing, while decreasing the stakes. They will demonstrate some of the exercises and invite attendees to share their experiences with retrieval practice. Warning: there will be a quiz!
- Date:
- Thursday, October 26, 2023
- Time:
- 11:30am - 12:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Instructors
Jonathan Howell is an associate professor of Linguistics. His research examines the role of prosody (e.g. stress, intonation, rhythm) in determining meaning in English, in particular the phenomenon of focus.The long-term objective of his research is a model of focus that is both computationally effective, for the purpose of representing and detecting focus in language technologies, and scientifically transparent, in order to understand how focus is realized acoustically and conditioned pragmatically by human speakers.
Dr. Howell is also interested in scientific literacy instruction and has published on the topics of numeracy and information literacy in traditionally non-STEM fields.
Lauren Covey is an assistant professor of Linguistics. Her research program addresses a fundamental question in the field of linguistics concerning why second language (L2) learning is considerably more difficult for adults than children. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, her work uses cutting-edge experimental techniques from cognitive neuroscience to examine how L2 learners comprehend language in real time. Much of her work additionally examines how individual differences in cognitive abilities impact language processing in both native and non-native speakers. Together with Jonathan Howell, she co-directs the Experimental Linguistics Laboratory in Schmitt Hall, room 389.
Catherine Keohane is Associate Director for Teaching and Learning for the Office for Faculty Excellence. Catherine has a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University. She has designed and taught upper- and lower-division literature, humanities, and composition courses, and has experience teaching in multiple modalities. She has presented on student engagement at MLA, and has begun to develop open-educational resources that work to mitigate financial barriers to students’ success while also serving students' sense of belongingness.