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		<title>Failing Forward: Why Flunking Exams Is Actually a Good Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How about this heretical idea: Why not give the final exam on the first day of class? Research on pre-testing (testing/quizzing students on information not yet learned) shows that wrong answers on a pretest aren’t just useless guesses. These attempts actually change how we think about and store information, priming our brain for learning to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Students’ Illusions of Competence Lead to Ineffective Study &amp; Learning Behaviors</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Illusions distort our senses, create false ideas, beliefs, and expectations, and lead us to see things that do not really exist.  Illusions of competence in study and learning behaviors leads to early termination of learning, overly ambitious expectations, and unfortunately, poor performance. Modern undergraduate students are overly confident in their study and learning skills. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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